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tedunangst on June 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia

Of all the ways that municipalities and hospitals and whatnot get cheated, banks skimming a little interest is among the least interesting. What would have been interesting is a nice shiny pie chart showing where all the graft goes, but that would relegate this particular scandal to a sideshow.

SideburnsOfDoom on June 22, 2012 [–]

"least interesting" or "smallest amount of money" ? They're not necessarily the same.

In the article, Matt Taibbi says it's "a business worth $3.7 trillion". A few percentage points of that is still interesting amounts.

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