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trueslant.com - 10/19/2009
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – There’s always room for Goldman Sachs (at the SEC)
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Say, did this guy win the Nobel Peace Prize too? I’m getting soooo confused lately. Gee whiz, I remember when they used to hire real criminal masterminds at the SEC (Joseph Kennedy) and real guys of integrity (William Douglas, Landes), whatever became of the good ole days? Oh yeah, all those ...
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Elizabeth Warren for President
trueslant.com - 10/22/2009
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Elizabeth Warren for President
— trueslant.com — Beyond monitoring how the government is mopping up after the financial crisis, Warren is pushing a proposal... that could help prevent the next one: creating a Financial Product Safety Commission to protect consumers from abusive lenders. Mortgages and ... (more) Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Elizabeth Warren for ...

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trueslant.com - 10/17/2009
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Good News on Wall Street Means… What Exactly?
— trueslant.com — Lloyd Blankfein, the company’s chairman and CEO, said Goldman is starting to see a rebound across many... of its businesses even as the broader economy and consumers continue to struggle with rising unemployment and mounting loan losses.“Although the ... (more) Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Good News on Wall ...

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Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – On the Nobel Prize for Occasional Peace
trueslant.com - 10/14/2009
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – On the Nobel Prize for Occasional Peace
— trueslant.com — Maddow: Before he was nominated for the Nobel, Mr. Obama had persuaded the people of the most... powerful nation on earth to choose him and his vision of strength through diplomacy—instead of the vision offered by his rival for the presidency. McCain: ... (more) Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – On the Nobel Prize for ...

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I can hear music
The Sideshow — ... Matt Taibbi notes that There's always room for Goldman Sachs when a 29-year-old "former employee in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s business intelligence unit" is hired as the first chief operating officer in the Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement division. ...

Silenced by Demons in the Graveyard
HorsesAss.Org — ... the pockets of rebels or drug dealers; some Afghan officials are making money off the trade as well, he said. I’m amazed that it even needs to be pointed out that Afghan officials are making money off this trade. It accounts for somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of that nation’s GDP. Here in the US, the financial service and insurance industries account for less than 10% of our GDP, yet they’ve been able to use their financial clout to run our government for the past few decades. In all of the discussions about what to ...

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