Matt Taibbi Quotes About Wall

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

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Matter, Making Money

• Nadie va a la cárcel". Este es el mantra de la era de la crisis financiera, en la que prácticamente todos los grandes bancos y empresas financieras de Wall Street se vieron envueltos en obscenos escándalos delictivos que empobrecieron a millones de personas y destruyeron colectivamente cientos de miles de millones, de hecho, billones de dólares de la riqueza mundial, y nadie fue a la cárcel.

  Matt Taibbi

  Muro, Cárcel, Hechos

  "¿Por qué Wall Street no está en la cárcel?". Artículo de Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. 16 de febrero de 2011.

• An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Giving, World

• There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Thinking, Government

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

• By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Player, Helping

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

• To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

  Matt Taibbi

  Running, Wall, Oil

• Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Class, Meat

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

• Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cheating, Wall, Hate

• The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

  Matt Taibbi

  Zero, Wall, Incentives

  "Justice Department's New Get-Tough Policy Is, Well, Not" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 20, 2013.

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