One could buy a lot of ice cream for 180 billion dollars.

A couple months ago I bought something or other on amazon.com and was able to get a year subscription to Rolling Stone for $1. The other day I got my third issue in the mail. Here's the cover:



At first I thought Gossip Girl was a band, but apparently it's a TV show. Anyway, on the inside is just about the last thing I expected to find based on the cover: A thorough and easy to understand article about the downfall of AIG. Here's the link to the article:

The Big Takeover by Matt Taibbi

ETA (2009-03-27): Matt Taibbi responds to Jake DeSantis's op-ed in Tuesday's New York Times.