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Streets Quotes by Matt Taibbi
- There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand…
- An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
- The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
- Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
- '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 Street…
- By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall…
- By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal…
- 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…
- 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…
More Streets Quotes
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout. — Michele Bachmann
- When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's… — Michele Bachmann
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker