Matt Taibbi : Insane Clown President

Insane Clown President: Matt Taibbi Chronicles Election of "Billionaire Hedonist" Donald Trump







As a new study by Oxfam finds the world’s eight richest men control as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity, the group says it is concerned that wealth inequality will continue to grow following the election of Donald Trump, whose Cabinet members have a combined wealth of nearly $11 billion. We look at the rise of Trump, and those joining his administration, with award-winning Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi. His new book comes out today, titled "Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus."




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Matt Taibbi on Libor, Cartel-Style Finance

Matt Taibbi on Libor, Cartel-Style Finance & How Failure to Fix Wall St. Has Propelled Trump's Rise







In financial news, British banking giant Barclays Bank has agreed to pay $100 million in a settlement with 44 U.S. states for rigging Libor, the interest rate which underpins trillions in global transactions. British and U.S. authorities have taken action against a number of banks over alleged rate manipulation since 2012. This was the first settlement between a bank and U.S. states. For more, we speak with Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, who has closely covered the Libor scandal.






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Matt Taibbi on Baltimore, Freddie Gray and How Legal System Covers Up Police Violence

New cellphone video sheds light on Freddie Gray’s fatal journey in a Baltimore police van. The footage obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows Gray lying motionless as several police officers shackle his ankles and load him into the vehicle. It appears to contradict earlier police claims that Gray was "irate" and "combative." One of the officers, Lt. Brian Rice, reportedly threatened to use his Taser on the eyewitness who was filming. We are joined by Matt Taibbi, whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Why Baltimore Blew Up." He writes, "Instead of using the incident to talk about a campaign of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal searches and arrests across decades of discriminatory policing policies, the debate revolved around whether or not the teenagers who set fire to two West Baltimore CVS stores after Gray’s death were “thugs,” or merely wrongheaded criminals." ||| Visit http://democracynow.org to watch the full daily news program, read the transcript, or search our vast online archive. Livestream weekdays 8-9am ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Google+ and Pinterest.



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Matt Taibbi on Why Bankers Will Always Stay Out of Jail

Abby Martin speaks with Rolling Stone journalist, Matt Taibbi, about a JP Morgan Chase whistleblower that has come forward to expose how the company knowingly sold toxic mortgages to investors and how the Justice Department used her as a pawn in its settlement negotiations with the financial giant.




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Matt Taibbi: JPMorgan charges taxpayers for $2.4 billion legal settlement

JPMorgan Chase knowingly sold dangerous financial products that helped lead to the 2008 economic crash, and now are making taxpayers pay for a government imposed penalty, according to author Matt Taibbi. Speaking to RT’s Thom Hartmann, the journalist outlined his recent work that sheds light on how, once again, the American people are paying billions so that big banks can profit.

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Matt Taibbi -- The $9 Billion Witness

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine / The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap joins Thom Hartmann. More than 6 years after the financial crisis - Wall Street executives like Jamie Dimon still walk around without any fear of going to jail. Why is that - and what can we do to change it?



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Matt Taibbi & Bank Whistleblower on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy, Avoid Prosecution

http://democracynow.org - A year ago this month the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the banking giant JPMorgan Chase would avoid criminal charges by agreeing to pay $13 billion to settle claims that it had routinely overstated the quality of mortgages it was selling to investors. But how did the bank avoid prosecution for committing fraud that helped cause the 2008 financial crisis? Today we speak to JPMorgan Chase whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann in her first televised interview discussing how she witnessed "massive criminal securities fraud" in the bank's mortgage operations. She is profiled in Matt Taibbi’s new Rolling Stone investigation, "The $9 Billion Witness: Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking."

American gangsters! Matt Taibbi & Max on suckers buying bogus & big bank mass perjury

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss how some looters are more equal than others as Jamie Dimon gets to keep his mortgage fraud deal with the Department of Justice secret while others get gunned down in broad daylight for lifting a cigarette. In the second half, Max interviews journalist and author, Matt Taibbi about the injustice that follows the wealth divide and how Ferguson, Missouri plays into that.

Matt Taibbi & Max Keiser on suckers Buying Bogus & Big Bank Mass perjury

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss how some looters are more equal than others as Jamie Dimon gets to keep his mortgage fraud deal with the Department of Justice secret while others get gunned down in broad daylight for lifting a cigarette. In the second half, Max interviews journalist and author, Matt Taibbi about the injustice that follows the wealth divide and how Ferguson, Missouri plays into that.

Matt Taibbi Goes OffTheGrid with Jesse Ventura

Award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi joins the Governor for a two-parter on his new book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.” The two talk about the worst wrongs executed by our government, including the fact that our criminal justice system is set-up to incarcerate the poor but not the rich. Agree or disagree with Jesse? Message him at ora.tv/offthegrid/askjesse.

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi : The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Who Goes To Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap From Wall Street to Main Street




Award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi is out with an explosive new book that asks why the vast majority of white-collar criminals have avoided prison since the financial crisis began, while an unequal justice system imprisons the poor and people of color on a mass scale. In "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap," Taibbi explores how the Depression-level income gap between the wealthy and the poor is mirrored by a "justice" gap in who is targeted for prosecution and imprisonment. "It is much more grotesque to consider the non-enforcement of white-collar criminals when you do consider how incredibly aggressive law enforcement is with regard to everybody else," Taibbi says. 

Matt Taibbi, Sam Seder on Alex Pareene Popping CNBC's Bubble

Matt Taibbi, Sam Seder on Alex Pareene Popping CNBC's Bubble






Matt Taibbi gives his play by play commentary of CNBC's demented interview with Alex Pareene and why anybody could do Jamie Dimon's job...

MATT TAIBBI : How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers

Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers

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- In his latest article for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi reports that Wall Street firms are now making millions in profits off of public pension funds nationwide. "Essentially it is a wealth transfer from teachers, cops and firemen to billionaire hedge funders," Taibbi says. "Pension funds are one of the last great, unguarded piles of money in this country and there are going to be all sort of operators that are trying to get their hands on that money."

MATT TAIBBI Explains The Student Loan Rip Off

The Student Loan Rip Off with Matt Taibbi

Rolling Stone's, Matt Taibbi : explained the problem with the new student loan bill in Congress, why student loans lead to indentured servitude, how we could make college more affordable, why the student loan crises is like the housing crises and how student loans are crushing young people and the middle class.

Matt Taibbi on the Republican National Convention (2004)

Matt Taibbi joined Mark Ames in 1997 to co-edit the controversial English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, The eXile. Of Exile, Taibbi said, "We were out of the reach of American libel law, and we had a situation where we weren't really accountable to our advertisers. We had total freedom." In the U.S. media, Playboy magazine published pieces on Russia both by Taibbi and by Taibbi and Ames together during this time.

In 2002, he returned to the U.S. to start the satirical bi-weekly The Beast in Buffalo, New York, which he eventually left declaring that "Running a business and writing is too much." Taibbi continued as a freelancer for The Nation, Playboy, New York Press (where he wrote a regular political column for more than two years), Rolling Stone, and New York Sports Express (as Editor at Large). Taibbi said being a journalist was a "career failure. I wanted to be a novelist," he announced at an NYU lecture.

Taibbi left the New York Press in August 2005, shortly after his editor Jeff Koyen was forced to quit over issues raised by Taibbi's column "The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope". "I have since learned that there would not have been an opportunity for me to stay anyway," Taibbi later wrote.

Taibbi became a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, penning feature-length articles on domestic and international affairs, along with a weekly political online column titled "The Low Post" for the magazine's website. Taibbi writes for the print edition of Rolling Stone, and contributes to their website in his current blog, "Taibblog". A later online column titled "Year of the Rat" was meant to document the 2008 election season, but it ended after only a few postings.

Taibbi covered the 2008 presidential campaign for Real Time with Bill Maher, and he has made several guest appearances on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and other MSNBC programs. He also has appeared on Democracy Now! and served as a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Taibbi is an occasional guest on the Thom Hartmann radio and TV shows.

His July 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine" described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".
Tackling the assistance to banks given in foreclosure courts, Taibbi traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to observe the "rocket docket" to process foreclosures without regard to the legality of the financial instruments being ruled upon, speeding-up the process to enable quick resale of the properties while obscuring the fraudulent and predatory nature of the loans, and a reluctance to allow public observance of the court proceedings. "Invasion of the Home Snatchers" was published in the November 25, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone.

As financial scandals continued to rock the world during 2012, Taibbi's analyses of the machinations garnered him invitations to nationally broadcast television programs as an expert who could explain the events as they unfolded and their importance to viewers and moderators alike. In a discussion of the Libor revelations, Taibbi's coverage in Rolling Stone was singled out by Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, Inc., as most important on the topic, that had become required reading to remain informed.

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Wall Street Matt Taibbi on Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura

Wall Street Matt Taibbi on Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
Who ever thinks this is not a rigged game is trying to play it. When the investigators do not investigate, and the crook steps forward to turn himself in, he is only protecting his coconspirator family from the legal problems and it worked. How do they get to keep any of theirs is also proof the game is fixed. Mad Money Cramer confesses to his crimes to the brother of a COO of wall street, and he still has his liberty?? AND a national money program??? Tungsten filled Gold Bars





"The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference-- that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars."

—Ron Paul

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."

—Thomas Jefferson

MATT TAIBBI ~ JP Morgan Chase's Crime Spree

Matt Taibbi , explained the myth of JP Morgan Chase as the "one good bank", why too big to fail is the problem, why Washington finally getting fed up with Wall Street, How Wall Street miscalculated the 2012 election, how JP Morgan Chase hides losses and commits regular acts of financial fraud and is genuine Wall Street reform possible now?

Matt Taibbi : Everything is Rigged ~ Majority Report 5/9/13

Majority Report 5/9/13 - Matt Taibbi: Everything is Rigged

Matt Taibbi joins us today to talk the BIGGEST price-fixing scandal ever. Read his latest piece in Rolling Stone, Everything is Rigged. Matt Taibbi : The Bailout WAS The Lie . Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matt Taibbi and Former Special Inspector General for TARP, Neil Barofsky join Marc to discuss myths about the bailout. Matt Taibbi, is a Rolling Stone Contributing Editor and the author of "Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History." "You can do real time in jail in America for all kinds of ridiculous offenses," Taibbi says. "Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million dollars of drug money and they can't find a way to put anybody in jail for that? That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector, but to everybody. It's an obvious, clear double standard where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can't break any rules at all without going to jail."

Matt Taibbi ~ JP Morgan a Good Bank is just an Urban Myth

Matt Taibbi, explained the myth of JP Morgan Chase as the "one good bank", why too big to fail is the problem, why Washington finally getting fed up with Wall Street, How Wall Street miscalculated the 2012 election, how JP Morgan Chase hides losses and commits regular acts of financial fraud and is genuine Wall Street reform possible now?

Matt Taibbi : The Bailout was The Big Lie

Matt Taibbi : The Bailout WAS The Lie . Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matt Taibbi and Former Special Inspector General for TARP, Neil Barofsky join Marc to discuss myths about the bailout. Matt Taibbi, is a Rolling Stone Contributing Editor and the author of "Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History." "You can do real time in jail in America for all kinds of ridiculous offenses," Taibbi says. "Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million dollars of drug money and they can't find a way to put anybody in jail for that? That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector, but to everybody. It's an obvious, clear double standard where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can't break any rules at all without going to jail."