From Axess, where did the money go? A special issue on the financial crisis. An interview with Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer. Daniel Gross on the little-known reason why investment banks got too big, too greedy, too risky, and too powerful. From FT, Philip Stephens on how the big banks rigged the market. Tunku Varadarajan on how Wall Street made money soaking savers and taxpayers, rather than adding value. A review of The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson. More and more on Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Raghuram Rajan on a better way to reduce financial sector risk. Banks make money, literally, money is their output, but social guarantees are their input — should they be the ones making

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