Matt Taibbi

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• The Public Purpose of Banking

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 491
  Maybe Goldman Sachs should have used some of its bonus money to hire better P.R. folks—the company has really been taking a beating, and not just because it is "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money," as Matt Taibbi put ...
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• Commodities Casino Keeps Rolling

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  by Matt Taibbi True/Slant.com HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–Sunoco Inc. (SUN) swung to a third-quarter loss on a host of charges and continued weak demand for oil-based fuels and chemicals. Those difficulties are expected to continue amid the economy’s weakness, said Chief Executive Lynn Elsenhans. ...
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• Sarah Palin and Her Powerful Elite Enemies

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 148
  I dont wish to join Isaac in piling on Matthew Continettis love letter to Sarah Palin in the Weekly Standard . Wait. Let me re-phrase that. I do wish to join Isaac in piling on Matthew Continettis love letter to Sarah Palin in the Weekly Standard. I know I shouldnt but I cant resist. Heres a passage that gives ...
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• Saving the plant for later

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  Nothing like a late night meeting with an attorney to make me reach for the bottle and pipe. Not my attorney, but the meeting was about stuff I’ll have to help with so there you go. I did get some kind of potted plant to go with my retainer. Actually I was asked to throw it in the dumpster on the way out but it ...
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• Matt Taibbi: Wall Street’s Naked Swindle

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  In his latest feature, Matt Taibbi, who earlier this year authored of the brilliant “Giant Squid” article about Goldman Sachs, lights up another fire under Wall Street and regulators, about massive [conspiratorial] naked short selling activities designed to bring down Goldman Sachs. Taibbi’s investigative style ...
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• It Isnt Reform Unless It Gives Goldman an Aneurysm

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post
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• The vampire squid speaketh

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Matt Taibbi has this lovely Goldman Sachs lobbying document. Heres a smidge : The equity markets provide perhaps the best example of a highly evolved complex ecosystem, where care must be taken to preserve the benefits that have evolved from competition and innovation... BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
  2 weeks ago

• Matt Taibbi On Elizabeth Warren for President

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 122
  Matt Taibbi calls for a run by Elizabeth Warren for the Presidency in 2012. Why? For these reasons. 1) Obama, who ran a wonderful campaign for the presidency isn’t doing well. He hasn’t closed Guantanamo, or stopped incursions of the Government into civil liberties. He’s done a terrible job with the banking ...
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• "Elizabeth Warren for President" (in 20012)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 440
  Matt Taibbi: Beyond monitoring how the government is mopping up after the financial crisis, Warren is pushing a proposal that could help prevent the next one: creating a Financial Product Safety Commission to protect consumers from abusive lenders. Mortgages and credit cards, she wrote in a 2007 journal article about ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wall Street and the Murder of Your Future

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Rolling Stones Matt Taibbi started what should become a massive investigation into Wall Street activity. Whats keeping Obama?
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• Eric Mangini Deserves Your Scorn ... But How Much Scorn? [Nfl]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 813
  Rolling Stone magazines insult comic dog Matt Taibbi recently took a break from his assault on capitalist swine like Goldman Sachs to turn his wrath on a bigger and more menacing target— Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini . Taibbis one-page editorial from the October 29 issue (not available online, because ...
  3 weeks ago

• Matt Taibbi Strikes Again

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 431
  Matt Taibbi, the independent writer who pens some very good work has another new article appearing in Rolling Stone magazine this week. Mr. Taibbi did an outstanding job on this, his newest writeup about Wall Street corruption and the stealing of millions from the ‘middle class’. While you wait for my nightly ...
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• Taibbi’s Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers Autopsy Reveals Foul Play

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Matt Taibbi’s recent Rolling Stone article dissects the downfall of Bears Stearns and Lehman Brothers as if he were at a murder crime scene. He carefully uncovers evidence, reveals the deception, and fingers the criminals behind the homicides. Much ink has already been spilled on the topic, but Tabbi’s unique ...
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• Taibbi’s Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers Autopsy Reveals Foul Play

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  Matt Taibbi’s recent Rolling Stone article dissects the downfall of Bears Stearns and Lehman Brothers as if he were at a murder crime scene. He carefully uncovers evidence, reveals the deception, and fingers the criminals behind the homicides. Much ink has already been spilled on the topic, but Tabbi’s unique ...
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• WALL STREET PONZI SCHEME CONTINUES UNABATED

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  WALL STREET PONZI SCHEME CONTINUES UNABATED The Dow is at 10,000, the Federal deficit is breaking records, unemployment is skyrocketing and money is cheap ~ so let’s inflate the same debt bubble, continue Wa ll Street’s derivative Ponzi scheme and let ...
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• Weekend Reading

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  The best unknown activist investment of 2009 ( Greenbackd ) Words from the wise ( Financial Armageddon ) CME in talks to buy CBOE for $5 billion ( Bloomberg ) UBS warned U.S. customers by registered mail their account details may be given to U.S. tax authorities ( Reuters ) Goldman can spare you a dime ( NYT ) ...
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• Matt Taibbi: Wall Street’s Naked Swindle (A MUST READ)

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  by Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone.com On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the venerable investment bank Bear Stearns would lose more than half their ...
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• Bankers should stay worried. . . were watching

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The country is in a mess and almost everyone else is paying the price says Tracy Corrigan.
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• Oh ye who travel this road. . . .look for a sign

  
  The Desolation Angel - An Idiot's Ravings at the Ragged Edge of the American Century — Authority: 419
  Friday October 16, 2009 . . . . .Apparently Podbean is down (again), so no music. When its back up, the tunes will be back in play. Until then, its a nice break to let you catch on some of the video clips from the previous 10 days posts. . . . .If youre reading this in the Facebook Notes, do yourself a favor and ...
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• Double-whammy (a jab from the shoulder followed by an uppercut)

  
  The Desolation Angel - An Idiot's Ravings at the Ragged Edge of the American Century — Authority: 419
  Thursday October 15, 2009 . . . . . I often use the top part of this column for my culture watch, that is, culture that I enjoy, so yes, its entirely selfish and quite skewed in viewpoint, but too bad, its my taste and this is the stuff I like. . . . . If youve never read Freakonomics , the ...
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