Sam remembered and honored the legacy of Aaron Swartz. Matt Taibbi explained why liberal and conservative lawmakers killed the first TARP bill, the bait and switch that eventually got TARP through Congress, how TARP coddled the banks, why government accepted bonuses and fraudulent accounting, why the to big to fail banks stock prices are still […]
Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi explained how HSBC laundered billions for global drug cartels and Al Quada, how the FBI did practically nothing in response, how the “punishment” for HSBC amounts to a few deferred bonuses and staying on the financial industry “ethics” beat what is the real reason the hedge fund the maker of the […]
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi explained President Obama’s latest comments on Wall Street reform, why he may defensive about his record, how Mitt Romney is the embodiment of all that has gonewrong in
On today’s show Matt Taibbi called in to discuss his new Rolling Stone feature story: Greed and Debt. The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. He and Sam talked about how Bain Capital and Mitt Romney exemplified the shift from an industrial economy
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone on LIBOR banking scandal as Barclays implicates British Government and scale of cartel style, market manipulation by players
Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone on JP Morgan Chase’s 2 billion dollar loss, banking regulation nitty-gritty and the outlook for the Too Big To Fail — even
Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone on corrupt culture of Bank of America; how CEO rivalry and government regulation created the banking behemoth that conned
Matt Taibbi on Iowa caucus results, GOP primaries as a meaningless sideshow
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- Tuesday October 18 2011
The one and only Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), Political Reporter at Rolling Stone magazine, joins us on today’s show to talk Occupy Wall Street! Also! Thanks to YOU, we’ve been nominated in the Podcast Awards in BOTH People’s Choice & Politics/News categories. You can vote for us in both of those categories ONCE per day. So […]
Matt Taibbi is a political reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. His latest article is titled ‘Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?’
