![]() ![]() ![]() He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice-the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime-but it’s impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side. ![]() In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends-growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration-come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. ![]() The prison population doubles.įraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
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