Taibbi. DoJ must bring criminal charges against Goldman

His latest for Rolling Stone.

They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it.

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Matt Taibbi on the Tea Party

The bad news is that the Tea Party’s political outrage is being appropriated, with thanks, by the Goldmans and the BPs of the world. The good news, if you want to look at it that way, is that those interests mostly have us by the balls anyway, no matter who wins on Election Day. That’s [...]

Goldman says Matt Taibbi, Zero Hedge, Louise Story, and Janet Tavakoli have become risks to its business

These investigators are doing the Lord’s work. Let’s support them and all continue in our own ways to drive a stake through the heart of the vampire squid.

Goldman Sachs is essentially a parasite that has attached itself to the US government. It gives nothing, takes everything. Now it’s saying that investigative reporters are [...]

MSM discovers blogs break stories before they do, determines problem must be blogs are icky.

Mainstream media realizes they may need to rethink their strategies

Mainstream media is all, ah, atwitter about major stories that have recently been broken by blogs, as well as all that information flowing freely through social networking sites. Apparently these new media upstarts are not being properly respectful of the dinosaurs of journalism, who [...]

Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs

He says Goldman occupies a gray area between public and private, unlike anything since Standard Oil. They have enormous influence with the government, one major reason is they have so many former employees in high-ranking regulatory agency positions.

All the appearance is that Goldman gets whatever they want from the government, and that securities [...]