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-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.
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…
- Matt Taibbi
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.
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump. - Matt Taibbi
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street e… - Matt Taibbi
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street e…
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology… - Matt Taibbi
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology…
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…
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…
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…
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