“At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.” EndsStatesBigsAmericaNamesFailingUltimateCriminalsFraudConspiracyEnd TimesLimitless Author: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.” StatesReasonUsedTeachCrimeSlaveUsed To BeLiteracyConfederate Author:Matt Taibbi
“Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.” LittlesTwoStatesUnitedUnited StatesPaperMissionsDebtCompareBudgetsAirplaneSovereignApolloApollo 11Paper Airplanes Author:Matt Taibbi
“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.” NeedsStatesHappensPoliticalNextWatchesSuccessfulAbsolutesOutcomesBeing SuccessfulFrightenedViewersMelodrama Author:Matt Taibbi
“Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.” StatesUseBigsGovernmentUsedInterestUnitedCitiesUnited StatesMajorsToolsRateSizeDebtScalesManageBudgetsCorporationsMassiveManipulationAssetsSovereignInterest RateBig Cities Author:Matt Taibbi
“Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.” StatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesModernLowsUltimateSymbolsCynicalRepresentativesPolitical SystemsPalinVillainyPuppeteer Author:Matt Taibbi
“You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.” KnowsStillsStatesHappensUsedNightStuffUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryTypeWeaponsRussiaOpeningSellingOfficersTruckCivil SocietyOpening UpWarehouse Author:Matt Taibbi
