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Wall Street 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…
- I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed…
More Wall Street Quotes
- Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout. — Michele Bachmann
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to… — Joe Biden
- Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of… — Joe Biden
- Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or… — Elayne Boosler
- I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There… — Elayne Boosler
- Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the… — Warren Buffett
- I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing. — George H. W. Bush
- Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself! — Herman Cain
- After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately… — Graydon Carter
- Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes
- If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have… — Warren Buffett