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“The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.”

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Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi is an American author known for his critical reporting on the financial industry. His work often exposes corruption and injustice within the financial sector and is widely recognized for his sharp commentary. more

“The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.”

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Author:Sara Blakely

“The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“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.”

Thinking Government Cases Streets Wall Involved Financial Corruption Being True Complexity Schemes Jury

Author:Matt Taibbi

“America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.”

Two America Budgets Officials

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

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Book:Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

“America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.”

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

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

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