VF's Q&A with NYTimes' writer Andrew Sorkin about Wall Street meltdown 2008

At Vanity Fair:

VF Daily: In your own words, what do you think is the significance of the new revelations and the excerpts in your book?

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Well, I think this is the first time the public is going to get a true, inside-the-room account of what happened where you actually get to see all of the machinations, all of the interlinking relationships—the sort of inter-web—and even some of the duplicity among the various actors in this drama. It hopefully brings all of it to life for the first time and also helps solve the larger mystery, which is, How did this happen? We have all read the headlines during those harrowing days, but as I got further and further into my research, I realized that news reports at the time only scratched the surface of what really happened.

If you "invest" and don't read enough to understand what happened & what's going on now - you are crazy.

On a side note, don't look at VF's story and slideshow about Penelop Cruz.