This is the 6th book I've read about the recent financial catastrophes.

Fools Gold, The End of Wall Street, The Big Short, How Markets Fail, All the Devils Are Here are all worthy books, but Griftopia tops the rest with its insights and outrage.

Taibbi doesn't simply settle for exposition and analysis. He's angry that business (Wall Street, insurance industry in particular) abetted by our government has robbed us blind while citizens have amused themselves with a media circus that doesn't investigate or analyze anything but rather creates endless cheap Punch & Judy shows featuring mindless, clowns wearing business attire variously speaking in measured tones or spouting pointless vitriol.

Taibbi is the Hunter Thompson of our time, but an improved version who does his homework and shows us where all the bodies have been buried.

Watch the documentary Inside Job and then read Griftopia