"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
But Dodd-Frank was neither an FDR-style, paradigm-shifting reform, nor a historic assault on free enterprise. What it was, ultimately, was a cop-out, a Band-Aid on a severed artery. If it marks the end of anything at all, it represents the…
How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece Taibbi details the thuggery, outright bribery, and sleazy dealings whereby investment banks looted Jefferson County, Alabama. Lots of locals who joined…
Taibbi strikes again. This story getting quoted and reposted everywhere today. Good. What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in…
Taibbi slams Geithner, Obama, and the banksters Not only are the mop-headed weenie of a Treasury secretary’s fingerprints on virtually all the gross giveaways in the new reform legislation, he’s a living symbol of the Rubinite gangrene crawling up the…