plunder and blunder
GRITtv: Why the Banks are Winning: Nomi Prins, Dean Baker, and James Mumm
Earlier this month and one year after the financial collapse Barack Obama told a group of Wall Street executives that he would not allow them to return to an age of excessive risk and disregard for the consequences of financial speculation. If only those words were true. Laura Flanders talks with Nomi Prins, Dean Baker and James Mumm about why banks keep getting bigger.
Email this pageGRITtv: September 29 2009
Today's stories include a film about shill Dick Morris, Jeff Shalet wonders why the left doesn't take the right more seriously, an update on the Stella D'Oro/Goldman Sachs debacle; and on the F-Word, the real reason big business is now getting behind cap and trade. GRITtv is a daily news and arts discussion program.
GRITtv: Dean Baker: Some Economists Are Better Forecasters Than Others
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke?s media blitz. Is it more than just PR? Baker also discusses a new CEPR report, The Gains From Right to Rent, and why Blue Dog Democrats are standing in the way of healthcare reform. Maybe it has something to do with the donations they've been getting from the insurance industry.
