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Another Goldman Creature Given Vital Government Post
Big news yesterday in the United Kingdom, where the citizenry surveyed its domestic banking system and discovered that it couldn't find a single person trustworth... | More »December 6, 8:17 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
The 'I Don't Remember' Files, Part II: Hedge Fund Chief Stevie Cohen
Since we already had some fun with one mega-rich yabo with a memory problem earlier this week, it seemed appropriate to shine a light on another "fuzzy memory" story t... | More »November 30, 4:55 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Apparently Can't Remember Anything
Thank God for Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. If you're a court junkie, or have the misfortune (as some of us poor reporters do) of being forced professionall... | More »November 27, 12:55 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell's Petraeus Biography
So over the weekend I read All In, Paula Broadwell's slobberific biography of General David Petraeus. It was nothing special, just a typically crappy piece of faw... | More »November 21, 1:50 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
SEC Rocked By Lurid Sex-and-Corruption Lawsuit
Move over, adulterous generals. It might be time to make way for a new sexual rats'nest – at America's top financial police agency, the SEC. In a sala... | More »November 19, 3:10 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
The Grenade of Understanding: Winners of the Write-Like-Friedman Challenge
Outstanding responses to yesterday's "Synthesize Tom Friedman" challenge. I feel like the washed-up, aging teacher who takes on a class of initially-bored prep sc... | More »November 15, 11:11 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Rewrite Thomas Friedman's Syria Column, Win a Free Hand Grenade
UPDATE: Read the winners! I know, this is getting very old. I promise, after this, to not mention Thomas Friedman for a long time. But his column today was so old-sch... | More »November 14, 10:45 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Hey, Rush Limbaugh: 'Starting an Abortion Industry' Won't Win You Female Voters
Like a lot of people, I listened to Rush Limbaugh the day after the election. Pure Schadenfreude, I admit it; I just wanted to hear the reaction. I searched the right-... | More »November 8, 4:50 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Election Day Is Finally Here: Tonight Is Going to Suck No Matter What
So it's finally here – the big day. After eighteen months of relentless, ear-splitting propaganda, with thousands, if not tens of thousands, of reporters hu... | More »November 6, 7:00 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Hurricane Sandy and the Myth of the Big Government-vs.-Small-Government Debate
Quite a shock the other day to look out my window in Jersey City, and see the Hudson River rushing over what used to be the street in front of my building. For nearly ... | More »November 1, 1:35 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Obama Defends His Finance Reform Record to Rolling Stone: A Response
The new issue of Rolling Stone features an in-depth interview with President Obama. An interview with a sitting president is always an intense experience for any news ... | More »October 26, 10:45 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Live-Blogging the Third Presidential Debate
2:50 P.M. I'll be live-blogging during tonight's final, inevitably disgusting debate. I've bought a new thesaurus for the occasion. Check back here at 9... | More »October 22, 2:50 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Finally Liberated From Facts, Mitt Romney the Pure Bull Artist Takes Flight
You know those Balsa wood airplanes – not the glider-types but the deluxe models, powered by rubber bands, with little propellers on the nose? I thought of those... | More »October 19, 11:20 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Taibbi on Moyers: On the Moyers-O'Reilly clash
Yesterday, I sat down with author Chrystia Freeland (whom I knew from Russia, where we both worked as reporters in the 90s) to talk about her excellent new book, Pluto... | More »October 18, 9:07 AM ET| Matt Taibbi
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