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Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It's Currencies
I'll get into this in more detail later (I'm on deadline for a magazine feature), but this story just landed. Given the LIBOR story, the Interest Rate Swap m... | More »June 13, 11:35 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn't have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series... | More »June 6, 3:35 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Why Didn't the SEC Catch Madoff? It Might Have Been Policy Not To
More and more embarrassing stories of keep leaking out of the SEC, which is beginning to look somehow worse than corrupt – it's hard to find the right langu... | More »May 31, 5:20 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again
It's becoming an annual tradition: Spring rolls around, and while nobody is looking, Wall Street quietly lays siege to Washington and reaches a hand out to yank t... | More »May 21, 9:22 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Everything Is Rigged, Continued: European Commission Raids Oil Companies in Price-Fixing Probe
We're going to get into this more at a later date, but there was some interesting late-breaking news yesterday. According to numerous reports, the European Commi... | More »May 15, 12:05 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Surprise Winner in Thomas Friedman Porn-Title Contest
It seems there's going to be a surprise shocker-ending to our contest from last week, "Come Up With the Ultimate Thomas Friedman Porn Title." I had Friedman porn-... | More »May 10, 2:30 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Who Can Stop the Koch Brothers From Buying the Tribune Papers? Unions Can, and Should
A few weeks ago, we did a story about hedge fund king Dan Loeb's plans to address a conference of institutional investors and perhaps solicit new clients among th... | More »May 10, 11:30 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Come Up With the Ultimate Thomas Friedman Porn Title
Yesterday I was clicking my way through the Times editorial page when I hit upon Tom Friedman's column, ominously entitled, "It's a 401(k) World." When I see... | More »May 2, 2:15 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Taibbi Joins Rich Eisen's Podcast
Checking off a long-desired Bucket List entry, I joined up with the legendary Rich Eisen of the NFL Network on his podcast on NFL.com yesterday. Rich, who logged an aw... | More »May 1, 3:20 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Too-Big-to-Fail Takes Another Body Blow
Minds are changing on Too Big to Fail. A month ago, it was just something in the air. Now, it looks like we're headed for a real legislative confrontation. And ma... | More »May 1, 9:06 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
While Wronged Homeowners Got $300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got $2 Billion
The obscene greed-and-arrogance stories emanating from Wall Street are piling up so fast, it's getting hard to keep up. This one is from last week, but I missed... | More »April 26, 3:53 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Taibbi Talks Price-Fixing With Leonard Lopate
As always, it was a pleasure for me yesterday to join Peabody Award winner (congratulations!) Leonard Lopate of WNYC to talk about my new piece in the magazine, "Every... | More »April 26, 10:20 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Taibbi Talks NFL Draft, Politics with Bill Simmons and Dan Patrick
I joined friend and fellow Boston native Bill Simmons of Grantland yesterday on his B.S. Report – here's a link to yesterday's podcast, in which we ... | More »April 25, 9:59 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
The NFL Draft Decoded, Part III
I woke up this Monday morning feeling almost like a little kid at Christmas – this is NFL Draft week, which means I get to do my annual NFL Draft Decoded column,... | More »April 23, 5:35 PM ET| Matt Taibbi
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