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Matt Taibbi: Break Up the 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Financial Behemoths that Destroyed the Economy

Matt Taibbi, Keith Olbermann, Current.com. October 14, 2011.

Taibbi and Keith Olbermann discuss whether it's possible to break apart "too-big-to-fail" institutions.

Keith Olbermann Returns to TV Tonight: What To Expect

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. June 19, 2011.

New freedom from a new channel means Olbermann's "Olbermann-ness" is going to skyrocket -- great news for progressives.

Matt Taibbi: Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. February 25, 2011.

Rolling Stone's Taibbi explains how the American people have been defrauded by Wall St. investors and how the financial crisis is tied to Wisconsin.

Matt Taibbi's Great Squid Hunt

Chris Lehmann, The Nation. December 12, 2010.

In Griftopia Matt Taibbi argues that America has been corrupted by the merger of government and finance.

Matt Taibbi on Deluded Tea Partiers, Ayn Rand and How the U.S. Is Like the Soviet Union

Matt Taibbi, Maria Armoudian, AlterNet. November 21, 2010.

Every country has scam artists, but only in a dying country are they part of the power structure.

Obama Can't Be Trusted on Wall St. Reform -- Here's How to Forge a Finance Bill That Doesn't Suck

Brad Reed, AlterNet. May 1, 2010.

We can't trust Obama to forge an effective financial bill. But we don’t have to live in despair, because we have an alternative to the Obama-Dodd-Frank approach.

Matt Taibbi: How Wall Street Made a Fortune off Alabama Sewers

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 12, 2010.

Matt Taibbi takes an in-depth look at the experience of an Alabama town and its disastrous dealings with Wall Street.

Matt Taibbi and RFK Jr. on Obama's Sellout to Wall Street

Matt Taibbi, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Go Left TV. January 11, 2010.

Once Obama took office, he sent progressives packing, and filled his cabinet with former Wall Street insiders. This wasn't the "change" that we were expecting.

Matt Taibbi: How Congress Has Blocked Health Reform in Five Craven Steps (Video)

Digby, Hullabaloo. August 31, 2009.

"We might look back on this summer someday and think of it as the moment when our government lost us for good. It was that bad."

NYT Invites You to Shed a Tear For the Super-Rich (While Reminding You How Much We Need Them)

Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant. August 21, 2009.

The New York Times has apparently failed to learn the most basic lessons from the global financial disaster.

Sam Seder Interviews Matt Taibbi on Health Care Reform

Staff, The Young Turks. August 20, 2009.

Taibbi talks Congress and reform with The Young Turks.

What the Mainstream Press Can Learn from Matt Taibbi's Takedown of Goldman Sachs

Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review. August 8, 2009.

If biz journalists won't step back and take in the sweep of this crisis, and the systemic distortions that underlie it, somebody else will.

Taibbi: How Goldman Sachs Profited from the Economic Meltdown

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 17, 2009.

Matt Taibbi argues that "Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."

Goldman’s Coup: Why Banks Are Benefiting and Workers Aren't

Laura Flanders, GRITtv. July 16, 2009.

Matt Taibbi and Mike Lux discuss whether Goldman Sachs is a risk taker or a coup maker.

Ludicrous: Matt Taibbi Accused of Being Anti-Semitic for Goldman Sachs Article

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. July 13, 2009.

Sample letter: "Isn't it convenient that an Arab-American writer ... looks at Wall Street and picks the most prototypically Jewish firm to demonize."

Matt Taibbi: Goldman Sachs Has Made Fools Of Us All (VIDEO)

Dorsey Shaw, Air America. July 9, 2009.

Matt Taibbi and Sam Seder explore the shameful past of Goldman Sachs

Taibbi's Scream: Stop the Political System That Has Let Goldman Sachs Fleece Us for 90 Years

Rob Johnson, AlterNet. July 8, 2009.

The sordid story of how Goldman Sachs and Co. engineered bubbles in the economy and made a hefty profit.

Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 6, 2009.

The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell if large investment banks are manipulating the stock market for their own gain.

Let's Get It Straight, Hank Paulsen Is a Prick Who Took Down the Economy

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. June 9, 2009.

The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary.

Naomi Klein, Matt Taibbi, and Bill Maher on Investigating the Bush/Cheney Torture Program

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 11, 2009.

Should we sacrifice justice for political gain? Of course not, but not everyone feels that way.

These God Pundits Can Give You a Splitting Headache

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. May 9, 2009.

God People are constantly fine-tuning their weird arguments to pimp the righteousness of faith.

AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right

Matt Taibbi, AlterNet. March 26, 2009.

AIG exec Jake DeSantis' NY Times letter asking for us to chill out about his poor overworked employees is a sick joke.

GRITtv With Laura Flanders: Obama’s Win, Was It Marketing Or a Movement?

Staff, AlterNet. November 19, 2008.

Nov 19: 9am (PST), Noon (EST). It was groundbreaking and impressive, but how did Obama win?

The Ultimate 9/11 'Truth' Showdown: David Ray Griffin vs. Matt Taibbi -- Part III

Matt Taibbi, David Ray Griffin, AlterNet. October 6, 2008.

The two writers lock horns over the accuracy of Griffin's recent book, 9/11 Contradictions.

Matt Taibbi on the Daily Show

Beta Tester, AlterNet. May 28, 2008.

Taibbi talks about joining the ranks America's conspiratorial fringes to write "The Great Derangement".