"The only reason investors haven't run screaming from……" — Matt Taibbi
"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 the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
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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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