Huffington Post - 12/27/12, Harry Bradford
A lot of things have ticked Matt Taibbi off over the last 12 months. There was JPMorgan’s London Whale scandal and the Justice Department's decision to leave Goldman Sachs alone. Even everyone's favorite billionaire Warren Buffett managed to rile Taibbi. But there’s one event that's made him angrier than anything else: The Libor scandal.
The Rolling Stone columnist singled out Libor manipulation as the “biggest story” in business this year -- and maybe of all time -- in a recent interview with Current TV. Regulators have fined two banks so far for their role in the Libor scandal: Barclay's agreed to pay $450 million in June to settle claims the bank manipulated the interest rate and UBS will pay $1.5 billion to settle charges of rate-rigging.
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