"An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street……" — Matt Taibbi
"An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site.
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like…
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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…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one.…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism.…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being…
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More Derivatives Quotes
This quote is filed under Derivatives Quotes,
one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
— Warren Buffett
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart…
— Janet Morris
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect:…
— Wyndham Lewis
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
— Norman Mailer
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name.…
— Yvonne De Carlo
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I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the…
— Tom Selleck
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
— Calista Flockhart
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No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.
— Unknown Author
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I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell…
— Kid Koala
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But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is…
— Johann Bernoulli
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