U.S. Banks and the Dirty Money Empire
Reprising a classic article by radical sociologist James Petras, who died on January 17th, 2026.
Brad DeLong posted these very interesting excerpts from Ron Suskind's new book Confidence Men on his blog:





Maybe this is part of the "women problem" Maureen Dowd mentions in her recent column. But I thought that column was pretty fluffy, battle-of-the-sexes stuff, whereas this Suskind passage is great. Who would have thought that lightbulb would go off in Larry's head?
--Chris Sturr