Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, Matt Taibbi argues that the presidential race has become a ritualistic contest between “1 percent-approved,” corporate-funded candidates, who aren’t necessarily right for the job. And this time, he thinks the public...

February 9, 2012, 7:00 am Then we move on to the reality that the Dodd-Frank bill does not, in fact go far enough in controlling these gangsters. Take a deeper look at all the exemptions in the bill and that the banks can still operate on what was once...

The president is accepting the challenge. It's time for progressives to say, 'Okay, he's moving with us now, he's using resources of government to aggressively pursue the malefactors of great wealth,' as Teddy Roosevelt put it."

That was stripped away in 2008 when the firm converted to a bank one week after smaller rival Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy and accepted a $10 billion rescue from the Treasury Department -- led at the time by Henry Paulson, Blankfein’s...

Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi dubbed the firm “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in a 2009 article. An interview Blankfein granted to London’s Sunday Times that year backfired when the paper splashed his sarcastic quip that...

Everybody on Wall Street is talking about the new piece by New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, entitled "The End of Wall Street as They Knew It." When I read things like this I’m simultaneously amazed by two things. bbosker Hello 1950! 'Tell stories...