Episode

9/24 David Dayen: Banks Ripping Off People, Courts Letting Them Do So

September 24, 2013

Journalist David Dayen, explains how the mortgage industry is still defrauding homeowners, why the loan interests incentives are misaligned, Bank Of America’s obscene record of mortgage fraud, the failure of the Obama Administration’s regulatory framework, why tort “reform” has made the housing crisis even worse and how the Obama Administration has adopted a terrible sequester policy.

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