Matt Taibbi

Finance Blogger Feud Week

So apparently, this is Finance Blogger Feud Week!  Get your programs! Last week’s Felix Salmon versus Zero Hedge dustup was merely a prelude for what was to come to this week. Two biggies to report so far:

Squashing the Goldman Beef

You can always tell when you’re talking to someone who at one point in their career worked at Goldman Sachs. How? Simple.  Within the first 5 minutes or so, they will begin a sentence with the phrase “When I was at Goldman,”. This is the real world equivalent of Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy telling a girl…

Wall St Cheat Sheet, My Latest Obsession

I love reading interviews when the subject is someone I truly admire.  I also love it when the questions are good enough to expose a whole ‘nother aspect of a person that I thought I knew all about. For this reason, I’m obsessing over Wall St Cheat Sheet in a major way. The site was…

Breakfast Links: Heidi Moore, Bill Clinton & Runpee.com

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Heidi Moore get’s her head handed to her by Matt Taibbi after her silly Goldman Defense…(TrueSlant) Is Taibbi’s next conquest Charlie Gasparino and CNBC?  On Imus Radio?  (Clusterstock) Mike Konczal on unemployment insurance, great post.  (Rortybomb) Finally, an interesting stimulus handout:  Advanced batteries for cars.  (WSJ) Bill Clinton is STILL…

Hot Links: The Pentatonic Scale

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3090598&w=425&h=350&fv=] Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Jefferson County, Alabama: the brokest county in all the land.  (NYT) Barry Ritholtz does a killer guest post for Prieur‘s site discussing the analysts.  (Investment Postcards) China’s governments create a bottom in commercial real estate by intervention.  (FT) Speaking of China, Karabell looks at why their stimulus is…

Taibbi v Goldman Redux

“Goldman Sachs…is like a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine Matt Taibbi is the reporter who has just exploded into the public consciousness with his brutal Goldman Sachs Controls the Universe piece in, of all places, Rolling Stone…