{"id":191319,"date":"2009-09-03T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/03\/how-matt-taibbi-changed-goldman-sachs\/"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T23:27:00","slug":"how-matt-taibbi-changed-goldman-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/03\/how-matt-taibbi-changed-goldman-sachs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Matt Taibbi Changed Goldman Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clear that he&#8217;s got them rattled, because they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-08-20\/goldman-execs-blame-anti-semitism\/?cid=bs:featured1\">trying to claim that hostility toward them is motivated by antisemitism<\/a>, and their marionette, Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125088307063549883.html\">has felt it necessary to deny that Treasury has a tilt toward Goldman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that either GS or the Treasury would actually feel defensive about this would have been ludicrous just a few months ago, but now everyone has heard of That great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>It appears that he has them scared.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Alas, I cannot claim credit for this bon mot, it was coined by the great Matt Taibbi, in his article on the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;font-size:78%;\" >massive criminal conspiracy<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> investment firm, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/28816321\/the_great_american_bubble_machine\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%;\" >The Great American Bubble Machine<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clear that he&#8217;s got them rattled, because they are trying to claim that hostility toward them is motivated by antisemitism, and their marionette, Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner, has felt it necessary to deny that Treasury has a tilt toward Goldman. The idea that either GS or the Treasury would actually feel defensive about this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1002,1064,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-media","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}