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...Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System...
...pretty much taken care of that with the title alone. His suspenseful blameography reads like a thriller, even though we already know how things turned out. The Sellout traces the arc of Wall Street's ultimate blowup, from the risk-taking free-for-all that began in the late 1970s through the emergence of complex mortgage-backed securities (which Gasparino labels a "financial cancer") to angry laid-off Lehman Brothers employees packing up their desks a year...
...tubercular hobo who's wandered into a karaoke bar at Yuletide. Others will wonder what statement Dylan, a Jew who for a while declared himself a born-again Christian, is making with a 15-song bag of Christmas chestnuts, sleigh bells and baby Jesuses. Is the album desecration or sellout or, just possibly, heartfelt homage...
...California, federal energy labs and the military-aerospace-industrial complex played a huge role in creating Silicon Valley, San Diego's biotech cluster and the state's other private-sector centers of innovation. So it's been a juicy target for right-wingers who consider Schwarzenegger a squishy sellout. If a low-carbon, Big Government, change-obsessed state with high taxes on the wealthy, draconian environmental regulations, a porous border and the nation's most vibrant labor movement were imploding, what would that say about the age of Obama...
...country's best-known rappers, Hichkas (Soroush Lashgari), started out being harshly critical of the regime, but in the past year, he has become increasingly pro-government. In one song, he scolds partygoers who stay out late and get roughed up by the religious police. "He's a total sellout," says a 26-year-old student who now listens to exiled bands like the San Francisco-based group Kiosk who can criticize the government without retribution...