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title: "4 Bank Quotes By Matt Taibbi"
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> ['Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-of-the-financial-crisis-era/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/matt-taibbi-2257_bank_nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-o_68424.jpg)

> [In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/in-the-old-days-when-you-took-out-a-mortgage-it-was-probably-through/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/at-least-bank-of-america-got-its-name-right-the-ultimate-too-big-to/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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> [In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/in-a-pure-capitalist-system-an-institution-as-moronic-and-corrupt-as/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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## Other authors on Bank

## More by Matt Taibbi

> [ The Congressional Record will forever show that \[Obamacare\] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-congressional-record-will-forever-show-that-obamacare-was-passed/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/sniper-is-a-movie-whose-politics-are-so-ludicrous-and-idiotic-that/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/i-get-the-cynicism-thing-all-the-time-although-i-don-t-really-know/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/it-s-really-interesting-that-we-ve-had-this-great-tea-party-movement/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/to-be-robbed-and-betrayed-by-a-fiendish-underground-conspiracy-or-by/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> ['Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-of-the-financial-crisis-era/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-basic-scam-in-the-internet-age-is-pretty-easy-even-for-the/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/for-the-broadcast-business-to-be-successful-viewers-need-to-be-not/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/it-s-not-a-stretch-to-say-the-whole-financial-industry-revolves/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/you-know-what-an-effective-deterrent-to-crime-is-jail-and-do-you-know/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/conspiracy-theorists-of-the-world-believers-in-the-hidden-hands-of/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/like-wars-forest-fires-and-bad-marriages-really-stupid-laws-are-much/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/you-can-have-somebody-living-next-door-to-you-and-you-can-live-in-a/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/george-bush-and-john-ashcroft-were-religious-in-a-scary-way-but-the/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

> [“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/people-aren-t-pissed-just-to-be-pissed-they-re-mad-because-a-tiny/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

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