Today Ladies Home Journal 2001 pie baking champion Matt Taibbi takes a break from bashing Goldman Sachs to bash the SEC in Rolling Stone. Like others, he’s kind of unimpressed by the SEC’s failure to keep track of complaints / referrals / pretty much anything that’s going on. Unlike everyone else, though, he attributes this failure not to incompetence but to a far-reaching cover-up:
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Matt Taibbi Thinks It’s “Orwellian” For the Government Not To Keep Records On You Just Because You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong
By Matt Levine
As you may have heard, a man attempted to hit Rupert Murdoch in the face with a pie during his hearing before Parliament this morning. It’s unclear what sort of cream the pastry contained (custard, whipped, shaving, man, cow), but apparently some of it “spattered Murdoch,” and the proceedings were adjourned for 10 minutes. The pie-thrower was immediately taken into custody, which probably came as relief as it meant that Rupert’s wife Wendi couldn’t finish him off. Continue reading »
Earlier this week, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote that after speaking with executives at Goldman Sachs and officials in Washington, and “poring through” the Levin Report, he’d come to the conclusion that “Lloyd Blankfein wasn’t lying” when he testified last year that Goldman “didn’t have a massive short against the housing market.” Matt Taibbi read the column and he did not like it. In fact, it made him so angry-stinkin mad, in fact- that he was forced to lift his ARS fast (“I’ve been trying not to say anything bad about Andrew Ross Sorkin,” he said last night). As Taibbi scholars, please guess at this time what the defense of Goldman made MT want to do:
a) Throw scalding hot coffee in Sorkin’s face
b) Bake some of the horse semen he’d been storing in his fridge into a pie and smash it into Sorkin’s face
c) Run through the Times newsroom smashing sno-globes and flipping desks over
d) all of the above
e) none of the above
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Would Matt Taibbi Have Been Less Angry About John Mack’s Wife’s TALF Fund If The Former Morgan Stanley CEO Waxed His Eyebrows?
By Bess Levin
A passage from his latest screed implies as much. Continue reading »
Former Congressional Aide Has An Idea That Incorporates Sexual Assualt For How To Stop “All The Bullshit” On Wall Street
By Bess Levin
Wherever there's a threat of sexual violence, there I'll be.
His plan is fairly simple: “put Lloyd Blankfein in pound-me-in-the-ass prison.” Continue reading »
The Times has something huge on you know who. Continue reading »
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