Matt Taibbi

Newsmakers Roasting on an Open Fire: Your Gift Ideas for 2009's Naughty and Nice

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Michele Bachmann, Al Franken, Sarah Palin, Howard Dean, Real Housewives, Joe Lieberman, Glenn Beck, Alan Grayson, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Wolf Blitzer, Comedy News

Earlier this week, I asked for your ideas on what gifts we should give to some of our favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures. You dusted of...

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The Killers Among Us (And Other Weak Arguments for the Senate Health Bill)

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Howard Dean, Health Reform, Ezra Klein, David Leonhardt, Jane Hamsher, Jonathan Cohn, Glenn Greenwald, Politics News

Have you heard? Progressives who oppose the Senate health bill are the moral equivalent of mass murderers. That argument is actually being made - along with the charge, ironically enough, that they're being too emotional.

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Learning from Lieberman

Robert Kuttner | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers Matt Taibbi, Obama Progressives, Health Care, Senate Health Care Bill, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

If the health care bill goes down, the far right will add another notch to their belt, the media will paint Obama as a loser, and Obama will be even more cautious and pro-corporate going forward.

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Taibbi, Kuttner Debate Health Care Bill On "Bill Moyers Journal" (VIDEO)

Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Matt Taibbi, White House, Congress, 2012 Elections, Public Option, 2010 Elections, Robert Kutner, Senate, Bill Moyers Journal, Health Care Reform, Gop, Health Care, Bill Moyers, Republicans, Politics News

Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect and Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone agree that the health care bill taking shape in the Senate is a bad one. But ...

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President Obama Loses His Base: He Just Ran Out of Slack

Tom Sullivan | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Matt Taibbi, Chuck Todd, Glenn Greenwald, Health Care Reform, Josh Marshall, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

The media was quick to declare the Obama honeymoon over this summer. Yet supporters exhilarated by Obama's win in November 2008 were still willing to cut him slack. That slack just ran out.

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Liberals Admit Mistake: Presidency Doesn't Matter After All

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blogosphere, Matt Taibbi, Karl Rove, Conservatives, Liberals, Finance, Financial Crisis, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Liberals' disappointment with Obama's abandonment of progressive policies has brought two responses: Put pressure on Obama in effort to push him to the left, or defend his shift as a 'pragmatic' necessity.

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Matt Taibbi On "Colbert Report": Wall Street Is 'One Ponzi Scheme After Another' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 12.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Dot-Com Bust, Stephen Colbert, Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Bailout, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Commodities Speculation, Colbert Report, Business News

Matt Taibbi took his crusade against Goldman Sachs to "The Colbert Report" last night, accusing the investment colossus of using its influence in gove...

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Matt Taibbi: How Obama Sold Out America

Rolling Stone | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Wall Street, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Rolling Stone, Obama, Bailout, Barack Obama, Financial Crisis, Politics News

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He p...

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Protestors to Goldman Sachs: "You Are Not God" - Bernanke Explains Why

Mike Elk | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Financial Transaction Tax, Federal Reserve, National People's Action, Manufacturing, Ben Bernanke, Dean Baker, Politics News

Goldman Sachs is, in the words of Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."

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Wall Street Conspiracy Theories: Which Are The Most Plausible?

The Big Money | Gary Weiss | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracy Theory, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Bankruptcy, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Banks, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Transparency, Home News

So here's a field guide to the five most prevalent Wall Street conspiracy theories, with each one graded on scope, durability, crowd appeal, and plaus...

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Matt Taibbi: Elizabeth Warren For President In 2012

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Congresional Oversigh Panel, Matt Taibbi, President, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, Business News

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 ...

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Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Bill Clinton, Pecora Commission, Treasury Department, Sec, Joseph P. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Newt Gingrich, Fdr, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Vice President Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Lyndon Johnson, Alan Greenspan, Securities and Exchange Commission, Too Big to Fail, President George W. Bush, Blue Dog Democrats, World News

Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."

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Matt Taibbi: Counterfeit Stocks Behind Bear Stearns And Lehman Downfall

rollingstone.com | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Securities and Exchange Commission, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Business News

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...

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Who Duped Rolling Stone Gonzo Reporter Matt Taibbi?

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, The Atlantic, Matt Taibbi, Naked Short Selling, Fraud Files Blog, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Economic Policy Journal, Diane Tucker, Short Sellers, Clusterstock, Penson Financial Services, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Don Imus, Obama Wall Street Bonuses, Banks, Economy, Regulation, Merrill Lynch, Ceos, Magazines, Taibbi Victim of Hoax, Short Selling Hoax, Investment News, Dan Jamieson, John Carney, Megan McArdle, Gary Weiss, William K Wolfrum, Robert Wenzel, Penson's Letter to SEC, Tracy Coenen, Kid Dynamite, sequenceinc.com, Citigroup Stock, Citigroup, Naked Short Sellers, Matt Taibbi Teaches Short Selling, Bear Stearns Collapse, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Bear Stearns, Youtube, Business News

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."

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Matt Taibbi: "Mortgage Market Was A Giant Criminal Enterprise"

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Matt Taibbi, Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Kansas Supreme Court, Mers, Foreclosure, Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, Taibbi Mortgage Article, Business News

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...

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It May Take A Revolt To Fix Health Care: Taibbi

Rolling Stone | Matt Taibbi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Matt Taibbi, Medical Insurance, Medical Costs, Congressional-Health-Care-Proposals, Gop, Public Option, Taibbi, Obama, Health Care, Politics News

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...

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Matt Taibbi: Why TARP Profit Reports Are Bailout Propaganda

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Banks, Matt Taibbi, TARP Profits, Bailout, Business News

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 ...

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Common Sense 2009

Larry Flynt | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Glass-Steagall Act, National Strike, Goldman Sachs, Obama Financial Bailout, Financial Bailout, Shays’ Rebellion, Politics News

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.

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Fighting Words

Chez Pazienza | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Matt Taibbi, George Bush, Matt Taibbi Health Care, Health Care Debate, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

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.

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Matt Taibbi's Goldman Sachs Story - How He Got It Wrong: The Big Money

The Big Money | Heidi N. Moore | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Taibbi Mistakes, Vampire Squid, Goldman Sachs, The Great American Bubble Machine, Taibbi Goldman Sachs, Business News

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...

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The Sound of Silence

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi, The Audit, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York Times, Cjr, Columbia Journalism Review, Business News

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.

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Goldman Sachs In New York Magazine: Is The Bank Evil Or Just Smart?

Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Matt Taibbi, Joe Hagan, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs New York Magazine, Business News

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...

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Matt Taibbi: Sommers Wrong Pick For CFTC

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Jill Sommers, Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs GOP, Cftc, Barack Obama, Business News

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 ...

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Embracing the Crazy

Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Matt Taibbi, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Teabaggers, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Iokalayar, Politics News

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.

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

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.

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