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We're coming up on the one- year anniversary of Barack Obama's election. I think it's maybe time that we asked ourselves how he's doing. He didn't ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
rollingstone.com | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Although the SEC issued more than 50 subpoenas to Wall Street firms, it has yet to identify the mysterious trader who somehow seemed to know in advanc...
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.11.2009 | Business
Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine's teen heartthrob, became a sensation last month after calling Goldman Sachs "a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."
True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
The court ruled that the electronic transfer system used by the private company MERS, a clearing system for mortgages, similar to a depository, that i...
Rolling Stone | Matt Taibbi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy ea...
True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
It was inevitable that the same people who pushed through the multi-trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street would come out later on and tell us what a ...
Larry Flynt | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. It's time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The Democrats have the power and the numbers, and yet they behave as if the other side would show them the same courtesy were the roles reversed -- as if the last eight years never happened.
The Big Money | Heidi N. Moore | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
Can one firm create a bubble? Can one firm create four bubbles? Maybe, but it's damn hard to prove. That's why it's so unimpressive that a fervent 10...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
For a site that has repeatedly railed about the business press' failure to take on big financial institutions, CJR's lack of comment on a major piece that did just that was puzzling.
Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
Is Goldman Sachs evil -- or just wickedly smart? In "Tenacious G," New York Magazine writer Joe Hagan has come up with one of the most levelheaded l...
True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business
In yet another win for the anti-regulation effort in general and banks like Goldman Sachs in particular, President Barack Obama has just re-nominated ...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Birthers: the people who believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, or Indonesia, or Mars, or the Seventh Ring of Hell.
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.
Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
Matt Taibbi, the author of the much-discussed Rolling Stone article "The Great Bubble Machine" about Goldman Sachs, recently appeared on Air America's...
True/Slant | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
So what's wrong with Goldman posting $3.44 billion in second-quarter profits, what's wrong with the company so far earmarking $11.4 billion in compens...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
I generally don't think much of high-powered congressional commissions, seeing as they typically exist as busy work done after a disaster to offset th...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
What is the origin of Wall Street's sin? And, just as importantly, who or what is responsible?
finance.yahoo.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
Goldman shares were strong Monday morning as Meredith Whitney made some positive comments about banks generally and upgraded Goldman, specifically. Go...
Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
Matt Taibbi's much-discussed take down of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stone has begun to get its share of criticism. Today, Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstoc...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Among conspiracy theories, the one about Goldman Sachs controlling the world, is as hackneyed as they come. But it was only a matter of time before somebody didn't think it was silly at all.
Rob Johnson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
We must recognize that we have been violated by experts and leaders. What's needed is a proper cleansing of social misdeed through outrage.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media
We should all try harder to write more accessibly. But can the complexity of finance (and economics) be effectively captured by the kind of simple explanations required by an audience that barely knows the basics?
rollingstone.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business
In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on "the Wall Street Bubble Mafia" investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy...
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True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business