In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.
Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up an… - Matt Taibbi
Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up an…
- Matt Taibbi
This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first centur… - Matt Taibbi
This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first centur…
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into an… - Matt Taibbi
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into an…
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. - Matt Taibbi
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. - Matt Taibbi
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in i… - Matt Taibbi
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in i…
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $1… - Matt Taibbi
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $1…
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a… - Matt Taibbi
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a…
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-e… - Matt Taibbi
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-e…
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