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Matt Taibbi Quotes

American - Author | March 2, 1970 -

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

Government Problems Financial Run

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

Day Opportunities Grow Fat House Go

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

Business Political Need Successful

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself.

Control Think Media Become Matters

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

World Believe Fate Feel Media Way

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

Thoughts You NFL Give Mischief Once

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

America Look Country Skating Outside

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.

Job Done Always Things May Get

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

Environmental Problem Workers NFL

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Evil Equity Single Successful Many

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Money Behavior Making Money Wall

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Construction Corruption Way Been

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