Alex Massie Alex Massie

The Long Arm of the Global Financial Crisis

It reaches everywhere. This from a guy just released having serving two years for armed robbery:

I joked to my cell mate on the first day that at least the GFC [Global Financial Crisis,] couldn’t fuck us inside. He’d been done for assaulting a cop when his house got taken by the bank.

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