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| 10/25/2011 |
Reckless Endangerment: Totally Corrupt America Last March I reviewed Matt Taibbi’s important book Griftopia, an entertaining account of the through-going financial fraud that gave us the financial crisis. http://www.vdare.com/print/13156 Taibbi shows that the US “superpower” can match any third world backwater in the magnitude of greed and fraud that is endemic in business and government. I would not be surprised if Taibbi’s book motivated the more aware participants of Occupy Wall Street. Taibbi’s Griftopia was published last year. This year Henry Holt publishers have provided us with Gretchen Morgenson and Joshur Rosner’s Reckless Endangerment. Morgenson and Rosner tell the story again, but with less drama and provocation. Possibly, it might be more acceptable to those gullible Americans who wrap themselves in the flag and refuse to believe that their country could ever knowingly do anything that is wrong. I am not suggesting that Morgenson and Rosner pull their punches. To the contrary, the authors deliver enough knockouts to be contenders with Taibbi as world champions in exposing the reckless fraud that the US financial sector and its regulators now epitomize. (Paul Craig Roberts) | |||
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keywords: Alan Greenspan, Brooksley Born, Derivatives, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, George Stigler, Georgia, Glass-steagall Act, Goldman Sachs, Gretchen Morgenson, Henry Holt, Joshur Rosner, Martial Law, Matt Taibbi, Moody's And Fitch, New York City, Occupy Wall Street, Paul Craig Roberts, Phil Gramm, Residential Mortgage-backed Securities, Roy E Barnes, Securities And Exchange Commission, Standard & Poor's, US Congress, US Department Of Treasury, Ubs, United States, University Of Chicago, Wall Street, William J Brennan Jr
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| 10/17/2011 |
Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right (Matt Taibbi) I was surprised, amused and annoyed all at once when I found out yesterday that some moron-provocateur linked to notorious right-wing cybergoon Andrew Breitbart had infiltrated a series of private e-mail lists – including one that I have been participating in – and was using them to run an exposé on the supposed behind-the-scenes marionetting of the OWS movement by the liberal media. According to various web reports, what happened was that a private "cyber-security researcher" named Thomas Ryan somehow accessed a series of email threads between various individuals and dumped them all on BigGovernment.com, Breitbart's site. Gawker is also reporting that Ryan forwarded some of these emails to the FBI and the NYPD. I have no idea whether those email exchanges are the same as the ones I was involved with. But what is clear is that some private email exchanges between myself and a number of other people – mostly financial journalists and activists who know each other from having covered the crisis from the same angle in the last three years, people like Barry Ritholz, Dylan Ratigan, former regulator William Black, Glenn Greenwald and myself – ended up being made public. (Rolling Stone) | |||
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keywords: Alternative Media, Andrew Breitbart, Bailouts, Bank Of America, Barack Obama, Barry Ritholz, Bill Moyers, Citigroup, Dylan Ratigan, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Financial Crisis, Gawker, Glass-steagall Act, Glenn Greenwald, Goldman Sachs, Internet, Matt Taibbi, Moveon.org, Msnbc, New York City, Noam Chomsky, Occupy Wall Street, Police, Rolling Stone, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party, Thomas Ryan, US Congress, United States, Wall Street, Washington DC, William Black
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| 5/8/2010 |
An Updated List of Goldman Sachs Ties to the Obama Government Including Elena Kagan From 2005 to 2008, according to USA Today and other sources, Kagan served as a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute. (Fire Dog Lake) | |||
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| 4/27/2010 |
A List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: Names Attached to the Giant Squid’s Tentacles Here you will find, I believe, the most comprehensive list of people-groups yet available to show how Obama’s administration has really become the Goldman Sachs administration. The Obama administration is not the first administration that Goldman has infiltrated, although it is perhaps the one that has been most completely co-opted from top to bottom. (Fire Dog Lake) | |||
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