The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

What happened with this Canadian company goes far beyond the merely cynical mechanisms of insider trading and market manipulation and takes us down into an even darker place in the national psyche, into the netherworld of pure violence and aggression that rules modern Wall Street. This is where the drive for money and conquest is so intense that it crosses over into a kind of hatred and bloodlust, where the payoff stops being about money at all and becomes a search for something more desperate and seminal. It’s about winning, in the ultimate sense of the word. Not many people in America have the stomach to really explore what that term means. But it’s all here in the Fairfax case. Thanks to the miracle of legal discovery, which turned this into the most extensively documented bear raid in history, we now know the secrets of some of America’s biggest winners. Like that they’re crazy.