Matt Taibbi on How Goldman Sachs Has Been Robbing Us Blind

TheGiantRobot Says:

Jul 22, 2009 - I do get it, I know they are puppets, but not all puppets and puppeteers are the same. All men lie, but some are more honest than others. Not all things are identical.

BlooBeluga Says:

Jul 22, 2009 - ok, off topic...this dude looks like the singer of rammstein in the mein teil video. what's with his eye an inch off position

TheZackFiler Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - then why aren't you happy with the Obama glass half full? I get it, I too want him to see gitmo closed, all the prisoners to American soil, repeal DoM, DADT and FISA, get single payer, etc. sadly this is the real world. And don't call Obama traitor. He wanna do whats right, but centrist Dems don't wanna let him, they are the real traitors. Plus, he's not a dictator by nature/style, "my way or the high way?" that's so 2008. sometimes, yes, that's sad.

TheZackFiler Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - I think he won't sell out , there's not too much to give in to. Tell me one thing he can do here that he can't do on msnbc???? every one compromises.

TheZackFiler Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - yah, right who would enforce that?

TheZackFiler Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - that's already so. no non-us can give money

TheGiantRobot Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - U.S. citizen, Zack, as opposed to corporations.

TheGiantRobot Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - The reason I call him a traitor is primarily the bank bailout, including the way they forced solvent banks to sell at an artificially low price to bigger banks. That alone is reason enough. There are other things, like going back on his word about amending the telecom immunity bill he pushed through when he didn't need to, or provisions penalizing people who don't buy insurance in these health care proposals.

TheZackFiler Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - Dude!!!! you REALLY don't understand banks, banking and the bailout. It was more like the banks blackmailed him. Banks rule this country and the world. See The International, to get an idea. Don't call him a traitor, it's wrong, it's childish and Cheney and bush and limboauh are the REAL traitors. Please don't tell me you're such a fake "independent", like: Independent = republican who's too afraid to admit it. Because he's not a TOTAL moron ...

TheGiantRobot Says:

Jul 24, 2009 - You make a lot of assumptions, and, frankly, you're coming off as an arrogant asshole. I know how the banks work and I vote for Democrats over Republicans at about 30 to 1.

TheZackFiler Says:

Jul 25, 2009 - stop calling him a traitor then. I doubt he could have done MORE, if you really think otherwise you don't know banks nor the powers of a president. IT's childish to see him as some sorta absolute ruler. This is why we are a democracy. Sure, objectively speaking, the repub traitors should be shot, along with every CEO, they are out for themselves, not us. Sadly, that's not reality. i don't blame you. not even Dem reps understand that a LOAN to NZ is not GIVING them money ... sad, but true.

assassinmakidoo Says:

Jul 28, 2009 - PLEASE INTERVIEW Monty Oum!

negitive23degrees Says:

Jul 29, 2009 - first of all people shouldn't blindly invest in a stock just because corporations beilive in it, they should look in to it and be intelligent investors secondly this happens with every investment bank as you said, its just who does it better. there job is to make money off the market not to be the angel, they are a company not the goverment

Luvanicebum Says:

Jul 31, 2009 - Remember Goldman was calling for $200 a barrel right around $140 a barrel, trying to ramp up the frenzy even more. Goldman gets record bonuses and the rest of the country gets layed off. PIGS! Oh, the CFTC allowed this "Enron" loophole to exist. Another government failure. This whole country is being run by pigs, morons and assholes.

RAMKING61 Says:

Jul 31, 2009 - Excellent! Matt Taibbi is a very brave man. Please focus on Obama's CFTC Goldman appointee Gary Gensler - who is making restriction rules for ETFs ETNs.

joneselius Says:

Jul 31, 2009 - Shame, after 9/11 there's no longer any records. Oh well, not convinient at all....

farliecharlie Says:

Aug 8, 2009 - In the US you live in a two headed one party state and that party is bought and paid for by the bankers.Democracy is just an illusion in the US, designed to make you think your voice counts when in reality the amoral politicians do the bidding of their banking paymasters. You are a debt slave to Goldman and JP Morgan, you work for them for free, you pay for their bad bets and all of your own free will. Sad! wake up! A mass debt repayment strike is an answer.

spilk84 Says:

Aug 9, 2009 - Great interview. Thanks.

maxdecphoenix Says:

Aug 14, 2009 - that's the problem. they have so much capital that they basically buy the government.

acx1n9s Says:

Aug 22, 2009 - bonuses are part of cost not profit--my God

xadam2dudex Says:

Aug 27, 2009 - bonuses are part of cost and not profit is true but how they made the profit to give those bonuses is obscene ..it wasn't true profit from doing good business it was more of the same corrupt manipulation of the system

bullybrown Says:

Aug 30, 2009 - Capitalism is a lion and a sheep arguing over what's for dinner.

carthfhuil Says:

Sep 4, 2009 - I've left I don't know how many comments on TYT's youtubes pointing out the stuff that Matt Taibbi was talking about here. I thought, wow, Cenk just doesn't give a crap -- he's drunk the Obama Koolaid and he doesn't care. Let me just say, I am overjoyed to see an Obama supporter like Cenk -- finally -- come around and consider this issue. Love Barack all you want, but we have to keep hammering on this issue because we can't let the bankers win again. Claw back those bonuses!

Mottahead Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - America's problem? GREED. Powerful people exercising their power to make/break/bend the rules of the game in order to guarantee that they always win ( and win it big). About Matt's exposés - if he is wrong, then he should go to prison. If he's right, a lot of powerful people should go to prison. Yet , guess who makes the rules?

666j1 Says:

Nov 9, 2009 - The Federal Reserve ( or should i say goldman sachs) artificially held interest rates to low, which did not allow the savers to invest in savings, and also gave false market signals to investors to use resources 'we'(im not american) didn't have to build or sell houses to an economy that could not sustain them. All while giving them AAA ratings. To me this sounds like fraud, but they will get away with it.