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The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren't Invited to the Real Party
A suit has been filed by Facebook shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Morgan Stanley and others. It's based on a very simple concept: when internal an... | More »May 23, 12:00 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped ... | More »May 15, 5:39 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Jamie's Cryin: Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase Lose $2 Billion
A quick note on the disastrous news emanating from J.P. Morgan Chase, whose unflappable (well, unflappable until yesterday) CEO Jamie Dimon yesterday disclosed that th... | More »May 11, 10:48 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Austerity Can't Be Just for Regular People
It didn’t take long to crank up the backlash against European voters. This is inevitable whenever a socialist wins a major election, but particularly now, when n... | More »May 8, 11:02 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Is This the Most Boring Election Ever?
May 7, 12:48 PM ET| Matt TaibbiThe apathy factor in American presidential politics has seemingly never been higher.
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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
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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.