--- title: "12 Financial Quotes By Matt Taibbi" description: "12 Financial quotes by Matt Taibbi. Plus more from Matt Taibbi and more Financial sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/matt-taibbi-2257_bankers_over-the-years-many-in-the-public-have-b_2835765.jpg" --- > [Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/over-the-years-many-in-the-public-have-become-numb-to-news-of/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/matt-taibbi-2257_bankers_over-the-years-many-in-the-public-have-b_2835765.jpg) > [Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/ratings-agencies-are-the-glue-that-ostensibly-holds-the-entire/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/matt-taibbi-2257_agencies_ratings-agencies-are-the-glue-that-osten_3170773.jpg) > [The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-moral-angle-to-the-foreclosure-crisis-and-of-course-in-capitalism/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/926/matt-taibbi-2257_angle_the-moral-angle-to-the-foreclosure-crisi_2758469.jpg) > [The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-new-america-instead-is-fast-becoming-a-vast-ghetto-in-which-all/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/088/matt-taibbi-2257_actors_the-new-america-instead-is-fast-becoming_3172012.jpg) > [You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/you-win-the-modern-financial-regulation-game-by-filing-the-most/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/matt-taibbi-2257_attending_you-win-the-modern-financial-regulation_867261.jpg) > [It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/matt-taibbi-2257_capitalism_it-s-really-interesting-that-we-ve-had-t_56035.jpg) > [The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-only-reason-investors-haven-t-run-screaming-from-an-obviously/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/603/matt-taibbi-2257_corrupt_the-only-reason-investors-haven-t-run-sc_1879775.jpg) > [The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/the-threat-posed-by-bank-of-america-isn-t-just-financial-it-s-a-full/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/matt-taibbi-2257_america_the-threat-posed-by-bank-of-america-isn_2430370.jpg) > ['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) > [There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/there-are-some-who-think-that-the-government-is-limited-in-how-many/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/matt-taibbi-2257_being-true_there-are-some-who-think-that-the-govern_310019.jpg) > [There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/there-really-are-two-americas-one-for-the-grifter-class-and-one-for/) [Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28c/matt-taibbi-2257_attention_there-really-are-two-americas-one-for-th_1937113.jpg) > [It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c0/matt-taibbi-2257_compass_it-s-not-a-stretch-to-say-the-whole-fina_87206.jpg) ## Other authors on Financial ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/financial/matt-taibbi/#itemlist", "name": "12 Financial Quotes By Matt Taibbi", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Taibbi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/over-the-years-many-in-the-public-have-become-numb-to-news-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? 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This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Taibbi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-of-the-financial-crisis-era/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/matt-taibbi-2257_bank_nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-o_68424.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/matt-taibbi-2257_bank_nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-o_68424.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/matt-taibbi-2257_bank_nobody-goes-to-jail-this-is-the-mantra-o_68424.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“'Nobody goes to jail.' 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Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Taibbi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/there-are-some-who-think-that-the-government-is-limited-in-how-many/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/matt-taibbi-2257_being-true_there-are-some-who-think-that-the-govern_310019.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/matt-taibbi-2257_being-true_there-are-some-who-think-that-the-govern_310019.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/matt-taibbi-2257_being-true_there-are-some-who-think-that-the-govern_310019.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against…” — Matt Taibbi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. 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