Best Matt Taibbi Quotations
- 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. Banker
- Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that… Businesses
- Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new… Cynical
- The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money… Agencies
- The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where… Abomination
- The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's… Angle
- The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell… Been
- The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits. Almost Always
- This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks… Careerist
- To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations… Assets
- Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass… Asset
- What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to… Aaa Ratings
- What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent… Abusive
- What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office,… All
- You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about… Actually Comes
- You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out… Civil
- You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above… All
- There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective… American
- Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer. Bulldozer
- Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles… Bar
- Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had… Actual
- In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… American
- The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were… Age
- We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With… Alternative
- In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Always Defeats
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