Matt Taibbi

  • 18 Feb 2010 at 11:33 AM

Matt Taibbi On Lloyd Blankfein’s Balls

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Matt Taibbi has a new article out. See if you can guess what it’s about. Were you going to say evil bankers and particularly the evil ones at Goldman Sachs? Of course you were. In MT’s latest, we “learn” that all banksters used junkie, con-men-like attitudes, and that Blankfein’s super power resides in his “pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles.” So now you know. Also:

At one point or another, pretty much everyone who takes drugs has been burned by this one, also known as the “Rocks in the Box” scam or, in its more elaborate variations, the “Jamaican Switch.” Someone sells you what looks like an eightball of coke in a baggie, you get home and, you dumbass, it’s baby powder.

  • 03 Feb 2010 at 10:30 AM

Matt Taibbi Thinks AIG Is “Thumbing Its Nose At Everyone” On Bonuses

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  • 11 Dec 2009 at 1:40 PM

Vampire Squid Writer Goes There

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Even more outrageous, it specifically prohibited Congress from rejecting tax giveaways to Wall Street, as it did last year, by removing all congressional oversight of future bailouts. In fact, the resolution authority proposed by Frank was such a slurpingly obvious blow job of Wall Street that it provoked a revolt among his own committee members, with junior Democrats waging a spirited fight that restored congressional oversight to future bailouts, requires equity for taxpayer money and caps assistance to troubled firms at $150 billion.

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