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From Matt Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine” in Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83. Published last June in Rolling Stone, of all places. “The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming Read the full article…

Most of the facts for this article come from a Bloomberg article written by Mark Pittman. Mr. Pittman contends the TARP paybacks may short the taxpayers by as much as $10 billion. He bases this on a payback by Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Indians. This bank paid the government back $1.2 million on warrants Read the full article…