The Hedge Fund That Ate Chicago

Les Leopold Alternet
Why does a millionaire mayor and a billionaire hedge fund CEO team up to attack public pensions? Because that's where the money is.

The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark/The Divide

Michael Hirsch The Indypendent
Reviews of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism By Dean Starkman and The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap By Matt Taibbi.

Bankers Learn What Happens in Vegas Can Land Back in D.C.

Robert Schmidt Bloomberg
One detail Deutsche Bank didn’t account for when it opened The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas casino: a labor dispute that has reached from Nevada into the bank’s dealings with the Federal Reserve in Washington.