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Quoth the Raven #359 - Matt Taibbi: Epstein Files, Mamdani's New York & ICE Raids

Quoth the Raven

Quoth the Raven

Investing, Business, Comedy, Business:investing

4.5 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Matt Taibbi is an American journalist, author, and prominent Substack publisher known for his adversarial reporting on finance, politics, and media, often compared to Gonzo journalism. Formerly a longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and National Magazine Award winner, he gained fame for covering the 2008 financial crisis and publishing bestsellers like Griftopia and The Divide.    These podcasts, posted here, are now all on a slight delay and are taken from my near-daily blog, Fringe Finance. As of right now I have no sponsors, so the best way to show support is just to listen/read or subscribe to my blog: http://quoththeraven.substack.com    You can also still contribute a one time or recurring donation to the podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/QTRResearch All podcast content is subject to this disclaimer, which you should read slowly, multiple times. Thank you all for your continued support over the years. I stand on the shoulders of the people who listen to and/or enjoy my content and I never lose sight of that. QTR’s Disclaimer: Please read my full legal disclaimer on my About page here. This post represents my opinions only. In addition, please understand I am an idiot and often get things wrong and lose money. I may own or transact in any names mentioned in this piece at any time without warning. Contributor posts and aggregated posts have been hand selected by me, have not been fact checked and are the opinions of their authors. They are either submitted to QTR by their author, reprinted under a Creative Commons license with my best effort to uphold what the license asks, or with the permission of the author. This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any stocks or securities, just my opinions. I often lose money on positions I trade/invest in. I may add any name mentioned in this article and sell any name mentioned in this piece at any time, without further warning. None of this is a solicitation to buy or sell securities. I may or may not own names I write about and are watching. Sometimes I’m bullish without owning things, sometimes I’m bearish and do own things. Just assume my positions could be exactly the opposite of what you think they are just in case. If I’m long I could quickly be short and vice versa. I won’t update my positions. All positions can change immediately as soon as I publish this, with or without notice and at any point I can be long, short or neutral on any position. You are on your own. Do not make decisions based on my blog or what my guests say. Nothing is fact checked. I exist on the fringe. Assume any and all numbers in this piece are wrong and make sure you check them yourself. The publisher does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided in this page. These are not the opinions of any of my employers, partners, or associates. I did my best to be honest about my disclosures but can’t guarantee I am right; I write these posts after a couple beers sometimes. I edit after my posts are published because I’m impatient and lazy, so if you see a typo, check back in a half hour. Also, I just straight up get shit wrong a lot. I mention it twice because it’s that important.

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0:00.0

All right, here with my good buddy Matt Taeevi from Rackett News, one of the last few independent,

0:08.0

investigative, fearless, courageous journalists in the world.

0:13.0

How are you, my friend? Nice to see that you haven't been suicided yet.

0:16.0

Always a bonus.

0:18.0

I'm good. Actually, thanks, Chris.

0:21.5

Thanks for having me on.

0:23.3

This is a pretty weird time.

0:25.8

You know,

0:31.4

I just found out that our site was investigated by the British government.

0:37.3

Using human intelligence sources and all kinds of crazy stuff. uh it's been it's been pretty weird uh

0:41.1

but yeah yeah that's the price you pay for telling the truth isn't it strange i guess i mean or it's

0:49.6

the price that anybody pays for doing anything i mean not to not to start boring you right off the

0:56.2

bat, but I think this is just sort of standard issue behavior for governments now is that

1:06.3

they hire out private intelligence firms and private PR firms to devise strategies to undermine

1:15.3

negative press. And, you know, if you're anywhere near any kind of reporting, you're going

1:21.9

like, you'll get swept up in this. So you probably have been. You just don't know it. Yeah, no, it's happened.

1:30.5

You know, I was a professional shortseller for 10 years. And so when you are telling the

1:34.6

inconvenient truth to companies worth many billions of dollars headed up by people who are worth

1:40.0

many billions of dollars, they will stop at no expense to you know at the very

1:45.3

least do counterintelligence to try to figure out what it is that you know about

1:49.5

them and I've been party to that a couple of times and at the worst we'll do what

1:56.3

you're doing which is you know try to infiltrate you try to compromise you try

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