Tag: Matt Taibbi

You absolutely have to watch Matt Taibbi explains how the ongoing LIBOR rate-fixing scandal is tantamount to the biggest insider trading scheme we could ever imagine. As Taibbi noted, average folks like you and I are affected by the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal because local governments tend to lose money when…

I admit that though I had been tangentially following the LIBOR scandal in Great Britain, I hadn’t really paid very close attention to it – until today. For those of you who don’t know what LIBOR is, LIBOR stands for the London Interbank Offered Rate, which is the average interest…

…but he’s not very happy about it. [T]his campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly contested. Instead it’ll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very quickly, like a hand job in a Bangkok bathhouse. And everybody knows it. It’s just impossible to take Mitt Romney seriously as a presidential…

Fabulous… Matt Taibbi nails it…

Matt Taibbi is unimpressed by the looming 2012 Presidential Race, and with very good reason. Most likely, it’ll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters’ choices in the midst of a massive global economic crisis brought on in large part by corruption in the financial services industry will…

Here is the moment that they found out they would be able to stay: Here is Matt Taibbi’s take on what they should shoot for:

This is stunning news, if it is true.  The situation is that Michelle Bachmann, who has the reputation of being against gay rights, attended the RightOnLine conference in Minneapolis the other day, entering the room to the music of Katy Perry.  Not just any Katy Perry song, but “Firework,” which…