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Matt Taibbi Biography

Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi (/taɪˈiːbi/; born March 2, 1970) is an American author and journalist. Taibbi has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books, including Insane Clown President (2017), The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (2014), Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (2010) and The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion (2009).

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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive. " Things should be better.

Awful, Hey, People, Things, Trying, Writing

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.

Afterward, Boys, College, Jobs, Newspapers, Somehow

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

America, Imagine, Known, Lunatic, Passion, Real

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Commercial, Media, News, Obviously, Trying

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Democracy, Free, Freedom, Governed, Greed, Passively

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Airplane, Apollo, Sovereign, States, Two, United

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

Debt, Family, Money, Size, Totally

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Institutions, Like, Our Society, Population, Poverty

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

Hands, Law, Long, Rule, View, Views

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Apply, Equally, Everybody, Ifs, Law, System

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U. S. A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

Against, Government, Involved, Limited, Thinking, Wall

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Defeats, Democracy, Greed, Integrity

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

Class, Fail, Interesting, Party, Tea

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

America, Budgets, National, Two, Unofficial

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

Age, America, Country, Look

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government’s seal of approval on that, they’ll take it. But if you can’t, well, they’ll take that too.

Government, Interested, Mistake, Politicians, Power, Thinking

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Agency, Entire, Financial, Glue, Holds, Together

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

Corresponding, Cutting, Match, Profound, Rich, Successful

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

American, Ideas, Issues, Journalism, Long, Notion

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Fancy, Gambling, Market, Profit, Term

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