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Taibbi: Geithner is ‘the architect of too big to fail’
The legacy of outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will be simple, said Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi on Friday — and unflattering. “He’s the architect of “too big to fail,” Taibbi told Democracy Now hosts Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. ” When this all blows up — and…
Matt Taibbi: Libor scandal biggest ‘Wall Street-related story of this year’
On the Current TV show Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said that the underreported Libor scandal was the “the biggest story, Wall Street-related story, of this year.” “There’s been a whole spate of market manipulation-type cases that have popped up in the last year, not…
Moyers and Matt Taibbi take on Wall Street’s ‘battered wives’
The multimillion-dollar high-rise being built near his office, Bill Moyers said Friday, is evidence of the “new Gilded Age” running roughshod over the U.S., which he discussed with journalists Chrystia Freeland and Matt Taibbi. The building will be built in New York, where Moyers said the income disparity among residents…
Matt Taibbi: The Romney-Ryan tax plan should be laughed at
Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said Monday on Current TV that it was appropriate for Vice President Joe Biden to laugh at his Republican challenger Paul Ryan during last week’s debate. “I think what he did — and he got heavily criticized for laughing and bringing this mocking tone…
Matt Tabbi: DOJ ‘playing softball’ with Wall Street firms
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone on Tuesday night blasted the Department of Justice for not prosecuting Goldman Sachs or any of its employees despite a nearly year-long fraud investigation. “They haven’t done a single thing, I mean that’s what’s so incredible about it,” he told Current TV host Eliot Spitzer.…
Matt Taibbi blasts the JOBS Act: It almost boggles the mind
Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone on Monday slammed the loosening of regulations under the JOBS Act. “They’ve gone so far, it almost boggles the mind,” he told Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer. The bill was aimed at making it easier for small business’s to raise capital. But critics warned the…
WATCH LIVE: Matt Taibbi, Van Jones and others discuss corporate power in U.S.
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Rolling Stone Contributor Matt Taibbi, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, Rebuild the Dream president Van Jones, Occupier Jesse LaGreca and Demos Washington Director Heather McGhee discuss corporate powers in the political and democratic life of the United States. Watch live, courtesy of Fora TV, below:…
Taibbi: $26 billion foreclosure fraud settlement doesn’t cut it
On Thursday night’s edition of Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, guest host Sam Seder welcomed Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who has written extensively about the financial crisis and the role that banks have played in our nation’s economic downturn. Seder asked Taibbi why his opinion has changed over…
Taibbi: Obama might have gotten the ’99 percent’ message
Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi appeared on Countdown Friday evening, discussing the Obama administration’s populist rhetoric in creating a potential foreclosure fraud settlement with the big banks. Taibbi, encouraged by the latest developments of the settlement, was open to the possibility of the big banks’ top individuals facing major crimes.…
Matt Taibbi explains ‘judicial butt-kicking’ of Citigroup deal with SEC
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone discussed Monday on Countdown with Keith Olbermann the “unusual” decision of a judge to reject settlement Citigroup made with U.S. regulators over its marketing of mortgage securities. “He came out basically and said that the SEC and Wall Street have been in a wink-wink, nudge-nudge…
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