The 2008 Crisis Lives On: In this episode Jon talks with Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard, who ran as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016. They discuss the idea that the U..S electoral system is rigged by virtually unlimited private funding and what it would take to unrig it.
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The 2008 Crisis Lives On:The 2008 financial crisis reshaped the economic and political landscape of the U.S. in profound ways. One result of the crisis was the emergence of the Tea Party, and in this episode Jon and Lev try to define what it was, and how it redefined the Republican party and, indeed, the republic.
"They were savage and bitter, especially the middle-aged and old...Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize they've been tricked and burn with resentment...Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies."- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)
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The 2008 Crisis Lives On:Today we talk about corruption, money and politics. Jon and Lev meet in Brooklyn and ask big questions: do we still live in a democracy? And if America is no longer a democracy what can we call this system?
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The 2008 Crisis Lives On:In this episode Jon and Lev dive into the weeds of Dodd-Frank. They rank the best parts of the law, and explore the ways lobbyists chipped away at it once public attention focused elsewhere.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932
The 2008 Crisis Lives On:Jon and Lev discuss fiscal stimulus in the wake of the '08 crisis, compare FDR's New Deal to Obama's Recovery Act, and list as many 1930s NYC public works infrastructure projects as they can.
P.S. The audio sounds so much better! Thanks Timmy!
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"The past is never dead. It's not even the past" -William Faulkner
The 2008 Crisis Lives On:This week Jon and Lev explore the roots of the subprime crisis, discuss speculative bubbles (hello crypto!), and compare the Women's March to the March on Washington.
The 2008 Crisis Lives On:This episode we introduce a new co-host, discuss tax changes, and what it means to "starve the beast."
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In this episode, Lev and Natalie lay the base for our current housing market: the history behind it and how nothing should have gone wrong, but then it does go wrong.
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The 2008 financial crisis caused the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. Millions of people lost their homes and jobs here in the U.S., and financial losses were in the trillions of dollars globally. In the last episode we discussed the economic costs of the credit crisis, this episode we go further into the data and explore the political ramifications (plus the heroin epidemic, labor force participation and videogames, and astrology).
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*Music in this episode: "Main Event" by Kesta, "Tropics" by beat.dowsing, "Equatorial Lies" by Hayvanlar Alemi
Episode edited by Natalie P.
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