Category - Matt Taibbi

Discover the thoughtful Quotes of Matt Taibbi, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history. Motivational Quotes of Matt Taibbi
Whether seeking thought-provoking reflections or academic wisdom, Matt Taibbis words offer a rich source of intellectual inspiration. #MattTaibbi Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It’s about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

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.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

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.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

I didn’t know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious – he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

It’s not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

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

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

I don’t often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

– Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

– Matt Taibbi

Copyright © 2025 · Created by Quotes Studio