Investing Quotes by Matt Taibbi

10 Investing quotes by Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi’s investigative style translates into these ten brief thoughts on finance, cutting straight to the heart of market realities.

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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…

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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

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'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

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The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary…

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Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside…

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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…

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Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed…

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“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a…

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“What Greenspan was saying, in other words, was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with bidding up to $100 million in share…

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“To use an example frequently offered by Masters, imagine if someone continually showed up at car dealerships and asked to buy $500,000…

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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an…

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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

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“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…

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