Well written diary. Now I want to run out and read the article.  I would like to see how he makes the argument (assuming he does) that it is G.S. and not other firms doing this.  I would think that others have been and are involved.  I also wonder about the 65 year gap, from 1934 and the mid-1990s, when nothing untoward was happening, supposedly.  That seems doubtful.  I'm not suggesting that GS did something during that time that is being overlooked, but that in this gap of time, there must have been attempts at least by someone to do these bad things with money . . . but I suppose the argument Taibbi is making that Depression-era regulations actually worked.  I'll have to go read it and see.