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The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

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It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

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America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

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Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

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I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

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Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

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What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

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I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 2nd, 1970

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