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What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in... MATT TAIBBI In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d... MATT TAIBBI 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S... MATT TAIBBI Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversaria... MATT TAIBBI The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the ... MATT TAIBBI What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subpri... MATT TAIBBI Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons a... MATT TAIBBI Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to m... MATT TAIBBI The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to ... MATT TAIBBI I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have diffic... MATT TAIBBI In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will '... MATT TAIBBI In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like havin... MATT TAIBBI Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matt... MATT TAIBBI The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party... MATT TAIBBI You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalt... MATT TAIBBI In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went t... MATT TAIBBI An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on every... MATT TAIBBI The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page ... MATT TAIBBI You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings... MATT TAIBBI The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-te... MATT TAIBBI Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. MATT TAIBBI The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of ... MATT TAIBBI You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses ... MATT TAIBBI It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the ... MATT TAIBBI It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists... MATT TAIBBI It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such... MATT TAIBBI The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of... MATT TAIBBI There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring ag... MATT TAIBBI Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representati... MATT TAIBBI The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a t... MATT TAIBBI We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been to... MATT TAIBBI There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy... MATT TAIBBI In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don&... MATT TAIBBI This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up... MATT TAIBBI If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow ... MATT TAIBBI I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. MATT TAIBBI This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far fr... MATT TAIBBI Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy produ... MATT TAIBBI I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was bo... MATT TAIBBI The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It w... MATT TAIBBI This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the ... MATT TAIBBI 'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. MATT TAIBBI There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-el... MATT TAIBBI The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are intere... MATT TAIBBI The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progr... MATT TAIBBI It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about resto... MATT TAIBBI Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because ... MATT TAIBBI Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can ... MATT TAIBBI What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to bel... MATT TAIBBI America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we'r... MATT TAIBBI Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow Wh... MATT TAIBBI By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against t... MATT TAIBBI Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits ... MATT TAIBBI Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing t... MATT TAIBBI Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck... MATT TAIBBI The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness o... MATT TAIBBI He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he’s perfected over the past months.... MATT TAIBBI People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street bu... MATT TAIBBI At the tail end of the Reagan years the Democratic Party, with the aid of Clinton/Gore–led groups ... MATT TAIBBI MATT CAMERON MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP MATT KEMP Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m... MATT HARVEY I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father? MATT LAUER MATT DAMON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT CAMERON MATT DILLON MATT GROENING The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past. MATT BLUNT Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failur... MATT BLUNT If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increa... MATT BLUNT The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le... MATT BLUNT Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. MATT BLUNT In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec... MATT BLUNT In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an... MATT BLUNT The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good... MATT BLUNT We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib... MATT BLUNT Public education is an investment in our future. MATT BLUNT MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT BOMER I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do. MATT LAUER MATT APUZZO MATT DILLON Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. MATT MULLENWEG MATT BOMER MATT DAMON MATT DAMON MATT DAMON I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets... MATT GONZALEZ I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ... MATT KUCHAR MATT HAIG MATT HAIG MATT RIDLEY MATT BOMER The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. It's a fantastic model that eliminates risk fo... MATT MICKIEWICZ If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ... MATT BEVIN MATT BOMER Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear. MATT MARTY I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'... MATT KUCHAR MATT HAIG MATT DAMON Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in t... MATT BELLAMY MATT LANTER MATT GROENING MATT GROENING This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood ... MATT BEVIN MATT HAIG MATT RIDLEY MATT GROENING There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress... MATT MULLENWEG When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn&... MATT MULLENWEG MATT GROENING MATT FORBECK MATT DAMON MATT DILLON MATT DAMON MATT RIDLEY MATT RIDLEY MATT GROENING MATT BIONDI MATT GROENING MATT GROENING I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ... MATT BALDWIN MATT STONE MATT DAMON MATT SMITH MATT BERNINGER It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to f... MATT MULLENWEG MATT BERNINGER I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I m... MATT HOLLIDAY MATT GROENING I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for ... MATT PROKOP You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. MATT DRUDGE MATT GROENING I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore... MATT BEVIN MATT DAMON MATT BOMER MATT DAMON MATT GROENING MATT GROENING MATT STONE MATT DILLON MATT DAMON MATT APUZZO Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between... MATT GONZALEZ MATT SMITH MATT APUZZO MATT SMITH MATT CAMERON MATT GROENING While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary. MATT BEVIN Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity... MATT GONZALEZ The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before... MATT MCGORRY
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