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Money Quotes by Matt Taibbi
- 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…
- The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that…
- The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money…
- The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
- Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen