Finding common ground to ‘Get Money Out’
Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org explains what “Occupy Wall Street” can learn from the Tea Party.
View ArticleBlaming the system or ‘greedy bastards’
Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., and panel debate whether “Occupy Wall Street” protesters are right to blame the “greedy bastards” when rules currently allow them to game the system.
View ArticleBeau Biden: Delaware AG on his Fight to Investigate the Banks
Millions of Americans, as we all know, are struggling to keep their homes. Details are emerging today about the latest band-aid proposal that would claim to help troubled homeowners. Bear in mind, it...
View ArticleSen. Bernie Sanders: Exposing Secrets of the Fed
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got us first glimpse inside the Federal Reserve, It was his amendment that yielded new information about the 18 Fed members bailing themselves out at the same time that they...
View ArticleDylan Featured on “Office Politics” with Alex Witt
MSNBC’s Alex Witt sat down with Dylan last week to talk about what is fueling the Occupy Wall Street movement, and how the relationship between business and government helped to spark it. This is...
View ArticleYahoo’s! Daniel Gross on Greek Default: “It’s Pretty Much Already Happened”
Daniel Gross, editor and columnist at Yahoo! Finance and the Megapanel debate whether France and Germany can agree to fund a Greek bailout. You can check out Daniel on Twitter, as well as at his...
View ArticleProf. William Black & Zach Carter: Obama’s Housing Plan Misses the Mark
Prof. William Black of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Zach Carter, Senior Political Economy Reporter at The Huffington Post discuss the problems with Obama’s mortgage program. MORE: Zach...
View ArticleFrom the Vault: Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some
This podcast was recorded in October 2011. How did America come to accept having two classes of citizens, living under two sets of rules? Have Americans give up on the dream of fairness for all, or...
View ArticleThursday Megapanel: A Debt Deal for the Eurozone
While Europe announces a debt deal, Dylan analyzes potential solutions for their debt issues with Rep. David Schweikert and the Thursday Megapanel.
View ArticleOccupy Oakland and America’s Longest War
Ashwin Madia, Interim Chairman of Vote Vets and Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Senior Fellow and External Communications Director at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies join the show. They discuss the...
View ArticleDelaware AG Beau Biden: Fighting Fraudclosure
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden sued the private national mortgage registry MERS, alleging a slew of deceptive trade practices that prevent homeowners from staving off foreclosure.
View ArticleDylan’s Inbox: OWS, The First Amendment, and War for Oil
This week in my inbox: some great questions about Occupy Wall Street, the “fallacy of FINRA,” the First Amendment and the “right to assemble,” war for oil, and the Federal Reserve. We want to hear...
View ArticleBarry Ritholz: “The Big Lie Goes Viral” on Causes of the Financial Crisis
Barry Ritholtz is chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He is the author of “Bailout Nation” and runs a finance blog, The Big Picture, and is a...
View ArticleCurrency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis?
The military protects us from enemies that attack us with weapons — but could our greatest vulnerability right now actually be our financial system and our currency? Federal Reserve chairman Ben...
View ArticleHow Cheap Money Wrecked the Global Economy
New Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti Italy’s newly sworn in Prime Minister, Mario Monti, is helping to form a new government as his country continues to teeter on the brink of economic collapse,...
View ArticleCEO of BlackRock: Financial Community “Let Down a Lot of People”
Here’s an interesting video out from Bloomberg — it’s a discussion with Laurence Fink, CEO of BlackRock and Bill Gross, co-CIO at PIMCO. The discussion on the Occupy Wall Street movement, the...
View ArticleTo Eric Holder: A Simple Way To Prosecute Bank Crimes
Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) Shahien Nasiripour has a great scoop in the FT – bank regulators have uncovered up to 5000 military families who were foreclosed on illegally by mortgage servicers. Foreclosures...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer: “In retrospect, I wish we had put more people in handcuffs.”
Eliot Spitzer, "The Sheriff of Wall Street" Eliot Spitzer was a law enforcement official so tough on corporate malfeasance that the US Chamber of Commerce helped coin a new term “Spitzerism” to...
View ArticleInsider Trading in Congress: No Wonder They’ve Been Trying To Keep it a Secret
Gillibrand wants a “bill with teeth” Yesterday, the U.S. Senate held their first-ever hearing on so-called insider trading practices among members of our own Congress. “It has recently been...
View ArticleGreedy Bastards Favorite Financial Innovation: The Swaps Market (Part 1)
Welcome to another episode of Greedy Bastards Antidote — a podcast series that zeroes in on “Greedy Bastardism” in our country, and highlights the people out there who are finding the “Antidotes.”...
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