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Matt Taibbi: Rolling Stone’s New Moralist

February 19, 2010 – 11:46 am

As Taibbi and Rolling Stone perceive, at least in this one narrow context, we all depend upon the internal moral structure of a civilized people. “The system assumes a certain minimal level” of internalized ethics. In a word, our democracy, liberty and free markets themselves depend on our culture. And those who seek to undermine the moral content of that culture strike at the roots of everything else we hold dear.

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Naked Short Selling and the Financial Crisis

October 5, 2009 – 9:01 am

Today’s podcast focuses on the controversy over naked short selling, prompted mostly by leftist Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi’s coverage of the financial crisis, and whether or not the practice is actually to blame for a whole slew of terrible things — including the demise of Lehman Brothers.

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Matt Taibbi and John Carney on Naked Short Selling

October 2, 2009 – 1:33 pm

There’s been a lot of controversy about a practice called “naked short selling.” In normal short-selling, a trader who expects prices to fall will borrow shares of stock and immediately sell them. He must buy shares at some point in the future to give back to the person who lent him the shares that he sold short.

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Podcast: Coffee & Markets on Goldman Sachs

July 29, 2009 – 12:26 am

TNL Senior Editor Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Wednesday, July 29th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s edition covers the controversy over Goldman Sachs.

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