Matt Taibbi
Occupy The Dept Of Justice
by Nick Glossop on May 20, 2013
Victims of illegal foreclosures and other outraged citizens have taken their protest to the doors of the US Department of Justice today, armed with furniture as well as banners, anger and wit.
Barricades coming down, couches coming in, banks stole our homes, so we’re moving in.
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Taibbi On Romney
by Nick Glossop on August 30, 2012
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
The unlikeliness of Romney’s gambit isn’t simply a reflection of his own artlessly unapologetic mindset – it stands as an emblem for the resiliency of the entire sociopathic Wall Street set he represents. Four years ago, the Mitt Romneys of the world nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed, shortsightedness and – most notably – wildly irresponsible
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Taibbi And Smith On Moyers
by Nick Glossop on June 23, 2012
How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy
Vampire-squid hunter Matt Taibbi joins Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism on Moyers & Company to discuss the ongoing crisis in the financial sector in the context of the oleaginous spectacle of CEO of JP Morgan Chase, Jamie Dimon’s appearance before the House Financial Services Committee a panel of fawning lickspittle congressmen.
Moyers & Company Show 124: How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy from BillMoyers.com…
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Bank Of America: “Too Corrupt To Survive”
by Nick Glossop on March 22, 2012
At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we’ll all be paying for until the end of time.
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Taibbi Teach-In ~ ABC’s Of The Mortgage Scam
by Nick Glossop on March 10, 2012
Before a hardy, sodden crowd of Occupiers, Matt Taibbi lays out the basics of the mortgage scams that led to the crash of ’08, with particular attention to Lord Zelig of the Zombie banks, Bank of America.
Bank of America is not just a private company that systematically steals from American citizens: it’s a de facto ward of the state that depends heavily upon public support to stay in business.
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P.S. Chatterbox, Nov. 13, 2011
by Nick Glossop on November 13, 2011
The P.S. Chatterbox is a weekend news feed of recommended readings and viewings.
Know-nothings, no-nothing-to-see-here-s, and nuclear power
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima
Chasing Fukushima’s fallout
Panetta spares no cliché in defense of defense budget
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been steadily escalating his warnings about the impact of the deep cuts facing the Pentagon
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It’s The Grift, Stupid
by Nick Glossop on October 25, 2011
The pugnacious Matt Taibbi lays out Will Cain and then lays out the case against Wall Street in easy-to-follow, paint-by-numbers fashion:
1. Free money
…the banks borrow billions at zero and lend mortgages to us at four percent, or credit cards at twenty or twenty-five percent…
…Your average chimpanzee couldn’t fuck up that business plan, which makes it all the more incredible that most of the too-big-to-fail banks are nonetheless
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P.S. Chatterbox 08-10-11
by Nick Glossop on October 8, 2011
The P.S. Chatterbox is a weekend news feed of recommended readings and viewings.
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
While many are reluctant to admit it, Obama has proved a disaster not just for specific civil liberties but the civil liberties cause in the United States…
…President Obama not only retained the controversial Bush policies, he expanded on them. The earliest, and most startling, move came quickly. Soon after his
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UBS, Rogue Trading, And Matt Taibbi’s Ass
by Nick Glossop on September 16, 2011
UBS’s admission that a trader has run up losses of $2 billion, from what the bank described as unauthorized trades, couldn’t come at a worse time for the bank or the industry. The Swiss banking giant has been struggling to rebuild trust after running up vast losses in the original financial crisis… …UBS isn’t yet saying how the money was lost, although police in London arrested a man [31-year-old Kweku
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