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The NFL Draft Decoded, Part II
In Men’s Journal last year, I coughed up one of my darkest personal secrets – a psychotic obsession with the NFL draft. Suffice to say that the disease has... | More »April 26, 1:55 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Jon Corzine Is the Original George Zimmerman
So the Senate Banking Committee is beginning hearings today on the MF Global scandal, hearings entitled, "The Collapse of MF Global: Lessons Learned and Policy Implica... | More »April 24, 8:37 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Don't Let Business Lobbyists Kill the Post Office
The Times has an editorial today about the future of the U.S. Postal Service: Postal officials say they must close about 3,700 underused post offices (there are 32,... | More »April 23, 9:37 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Talking Gangster Banks with Max Keiser
I originally was going to post this video and just direct readers to my appearance on the always-excellent Max Keiser report at the 12:30 mark – Max, who usually... | More »April 20, 10:27 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Free $10 Million Loans For All! and Other Wall Street Notes
Have been on deadline this week, but wanted to post a few interesting links: • I hope everyone saw ex-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chief Sheila Bair&rsq...; | More »April 19, 10:36 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Yes, Virginia, This Is Obama’s JOBS Act
A number of people, many of them enthusiastic supporters of President Obama, wrote in to complain about my last piece about the JOBS Act. The gist of many of these let... | More »April 12, 6:55 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse
Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I've been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to th... | More »April 9, 11:53 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Mike Bloomberg's New York: Cops in Your Hallways
An amazing lawsuit was filed in New York last week. It seems Mike Bloomberg’s notorious "stop-and-frisk" policy – known colloquially in these parts by sile... | More »April 3, 11:30 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Push to End Too-Big-To-Fail Goes Mainstream
Wall Street is buzzing about the annual report just put out by the Dallas Federal Reserve. In the paper, Harvey Rosenblum, the head of the Dallas Fed's research d... | More »March 29, 12:35 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Talking Wall Street Accountability with Spitzer, Ratigan and Others
A quick housekeeping note: I’m going to be appearing at an event at Gaston Hall at Georgetown University tonight, at 7:00 p.m. The event, called "Blueprint for A... | More »March 27, 8:53 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Gangster Banks Keep Winning Public Business. Why?
A friend of mine sent this article from Bloomberg, along with the simple comment: "Perfect." What's perfect? That the banks that have been caught repeatedly rippi... | More »March 22, 9:40 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent
Here's yet another form of hidden bailout the federal government doles out to our big banks, without the public having much of a clue. This is from the WSJ this ... | More »March 19, 10:55 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
On Goldman Executive Greg Smith's Brave Departure
March 14, 11:06 AM ET| Matt TaibbiWall Street is buzzing this morning about a resignation – a historic one. Greg Smith, the executive director and head of Goldman Sachs’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, not only decided to quit Goldman, he decided to do it in the New York Times, eloquently deconstructing the firm’s moral slide in a lengthy op-ed piece.
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J.P. Morgan Chase's Ugly Family Secrets Revealed
In a story that should be getting lots of attention, American Banker has released an excellent and disturbing exposé of J.P. Morgan Chase's credit card ser... | More »March 13, 9:18 AM ET| Matt Taibbi
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ABOUT THIS BLOG
Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He’s the author of five books, most recently The Great Derangement and Griftopia, and a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary.