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39. Per Matt Taibbi: Octopus: Read This Book to Understand Wall Street

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:47 AM

Jul 2012

Per Matt Taibbi:

7/24/12 Octopus: Read This Book to Understand Wall Street
First things first: someone is going to make Octopus into a movie. By this time next year, the books author, fellow Rolling Stone contributor Guy Lawson, will have a fat deal (he may already have one as far as I know) and will be hobnobbing with Ed Norton or John Cusack or whoever else gets to play the incredible role of Sam Israel, the Madoff-esque Ponzi artist who headed the infamous Bayou hedge fund. When I try to get Guy on the phone for whatever reason, I’m going to get fobbed off instead on a personal assistant with a name like Minka or Yue-Yue. That’s just a fact.

The reason for that is that Octopus is an incredible dark comedy with one of the craziest true-life ironic twists you can possibly imagine. I should point out right here that this incredible plot twist is not the reason I think this is an important book that should be read by everyone who wants to know how Wall Street works.

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