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Matt Taibbi

The Challenges of Communicating the Crisis

Robert Teitelman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Rolling Stone, Financial Journalism, Robert Teitelman, Media, Frank Rich, Felix Salmon, Media News
Robert Teitelman

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?

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Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine

rollingstone.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Great American Bubble Machine, Goldman Sachs Rolling Stone, Taibbi on Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Goldman Sachs, Business News

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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Taibbi's Goldman Sachs Rolling Stone Piece: Writer Strikes Back

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Matt-Taibbi-Rolling-Stone, Lucas Van Pragg, Rolling Stone, Goldman-Sachs-Rolling-Stone, Business News

After my Rolling Stone piece about Goldman, Sachs hit the newsstands last week (unfortunately the piece is not yet up on the magazine's web site, so I...

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Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone Story On Goldman: The Bank Responds

Reuters | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Matt-Taibbi-Rolling-Stone, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Taibbi-Goldman-Sachs, Business News

I just got off the phone with Lucas van Praag, the top flack at Goldman Sachs, who called Matt Taibbi's piece on the bank "hysterical". He also sent m...

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Taibbi's Goldman Sachs Takedown In Rolling Stone: Bank Has 'Unprecedented Reach And Power'

zerohedge.blogspot.com | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Taibbi Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone, Finance, Bank, Banks, Business News

With a subtitle like "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - a...

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Taibbi: Goldman's Weak Apology For The Financial Crisis

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Bailout, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs Apology, Business News

Anyone else out there find himself doubled over laughing after reading Goldman, Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein's "apology" for his bank's behavior leadin...

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Taibbi: Henry Paulson's No Hero

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, Henry Paulson, Bailout, Wall Street Journal, Business News

So here's the letter I wrote to the Wall Street Journal after reading Evan Newmark's paean to Hank Paulson last week: ...

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The Illusion of Corporate Transparency: The Cluetrain Manifesto 10 Years Later

Andrew Cherwenka | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Social Media, Matt Taibbi, Internet, Sun Microsystems, Social Networking, Cluetrain, Kahney, Business News
Andrew Cherwenka

Ten years ago today, a hopefully prophetic obituary for the pre-internet business power structure, The Cluetrain Manifesto, was published. A decade later, in many key ways, it's still business as usual.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 14, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Cnbc, Domestic Terrorists, White Supremacists, Economic Crisis, Media Criticism, Rolling Stone, Financial Crisis, Somalian Pirates, Dan Abrams, Pirates, Stimulus Package, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

Dan Abrams recently tweeted that the "MSM is empowering the pirate/thugs," asking, "Would we see headlines about "muggers" vowing retaliation if a few...

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Matt Taibbi Blogging For True/Slant: "Did Jann Wenner's Blog-ophobia Drive [Him] To Moonlight?"

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi, Media News

Did Jann Wenner's blog-ophobia drive one of his most popular writers to moonlight? Among the brand-name journalists contributing to True/Slant, a n...

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Jason Linkins

Maddow, Taibbi Torch Obama Treasury Picks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Video, Rachel Maddow, Neal Wolin, Economic Crisis, Treasury Department, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Mediawatch, Politics News

The extraordinary faith-slash-naivete-slash-stupidity that the Obama administration is showing in the people who made every day April Fools Day for ou...

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The Real Crime in the Bailout -- Naked CDS Deals

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Congress, Bailout, Treasury, Michale Lewis, Cds, Aig, Eliot Spitzer, Counterparties, Rolling Stone, Tim Geithner, Naked Cds, Financial Collapse, Business News
Cenk Uygur

I would love for Tim Geithner or anyone else in the administration or Congress to explain why they think these naked Credit Default Swaps must be paid off.

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Jason Linkins

Thomas Friedman Kind Of Gets A Metaphor Right!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Thomas Friedman, Metaphors, Media Criticism, Politics News

As his most fervent critics are fond of pointing out, any time you get wind that Thomas Friedman is about to attempt a metaphor, it's best to evacuate...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: February 18, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Thomas Friedman, Unemployment, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Afghanistan, George Will, Watchmen, New Republic, Fred Hiatt, Politics News

You know, yesterday, as I read The New Republic's attempt to tell me that it was up to me and President Obama to save newspapers through a sustained c...

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Matt Taibbi Takes On Tom Friedman's Green Cred: "Porn-Stached Resident Of A Positively Obscene...Mega-Monstro-Mansion"

New York Press | Matt Taibbi | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Thomas Friedman, Tom Friedman, Tom Friedman Green, Hot Flat and Crowded, Matt Taibbi Tom Friedman, Thomas Friedman Green, Media News

When some time ago a friend of mine told me that Thomas Friedman's new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, was going to be a kind of environmentalist clario...

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A Challenge

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Byron York, Matt Taibbi, U.S. Economy, Debate, National Review, Talking Points, Economy, Media, Partisan, Media Bias, New York Magazine, Ponzi Scheme, Media News
Andrew Sargus Klein

Snark and blinkered partisanship aren't going to help anyone out of this mess. It's going to take a lot of ivory tower types and pragmatic politicians to pull this off.

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Matt Taibbi, Byron York Live Chat About McCain, Economic Crisis

New York Magazine | Matt Taibbi and Byron York | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

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Every day (or close to it) until November 4, a series of writers and thinkers will discuss the election over instant messenger for nymag.com. Today, R...

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W. is not Batman

Bart Motes | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Thomas Friedman, Matt Taibbi, Mickey Spillane, Rush Limbaugh, Joel Surnow, George W. Bush, Batman: The Dark Knight, 24, Media News
Bart Motes

The extreme right has a fetish for justifying their contempt of American institutions via tenuous comparisons to fiction. Most recently, in the Wall S...

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My Interview with Matt Taibbi on His Book, the Media, the Election and His Spat with Erica Jong

Ben Cohen | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Erica Jong Matt Taibbi, Matt Taibbi, Podcast, Campaign 2008, 2004 Election, 9/11, 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists, Feminism, 2008 Election, Mainstream Media, John Hagee, Erica Jong, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Rolling Stone, Hillary Clinton, Scooter Libby, Media News
Ben Cohen

Matt Taibbi: "I think there was a lot of real anger there and I got caught up in that, I think unfairly because I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope."

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Ellies! What A Night For Very Athletic People At Magazines!

Huffington Post\ | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Ellies, National Magazine Awards, Matt Taibbi, Media News

It was a great night for magazines -- big and small, niche and mainstream, print and online, all of which were recognized in a broad range of nominations and awards that proved that excellence in magazines is still alive and well.

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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi: Screw the Bus

Christian Avard | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Republican Party, Matt Taibbi, Government Corruption, Democratic Party, 2008 Election, Offthebus, Home News
Christian Avard

OffTheBus recently caught up with Matt Taibbi and discussed a range of issues from his new book, Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire, and campaign trail journalism.

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