Two more items...

...from that piece in the Atlantic by Chrystia Freeland (my emphasis):

The hedge-fund manager John Paulson, above, single-handedly profited almost as much from the crisis of 2008 as Goldman Sachs did.
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After a down year in 2008, the top 25 hedge-fund managers were paid, on average, more than $1 billion each in 2009, quickly eclipsing the record they had set in pre-recession 2007.