Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with Melissa Jacoby, law professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to discuss her recent book Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on SCOTUS’ affirmation of presidential immunity, Joe Biden’s Presidency, Boeing’s plea deal, Bannon’s prison […]

Sam hosts Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London, and Alex Williams, lecturer in digital media and society at the University of East Anglia, to discuss their recent book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). Sam first runs through Ukraine’s […]

Sam and Emma host Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) of New York Magazine to discuss the state of the filibuster negotiations in the senate, and then Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) from Vice Motherboard joins to discuss the Reddit/GameStop/Robinhood short squeeze and what comes next in the populist financial story of the year. On today’s show: Pelosi slams […]

Journalist and author Nicholas Shaxson (@nickshaxson) joins us to discuss his new book, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer. On today’s show: Jamie Dimon says he can’t solve problems of wealth inequality with his compensation. Nicholas Shaxson (@nickshaxson) joins us to discuss his new book, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All […]

-What is the state of play with Healthcare repeal? -New evidence declassified on the CIA backed 1953 coup in Iran Author Jesse Eisinger author, of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, explains the creation of “White Color” crime. When Wall Street was scared of government. The importance of putting white […]

David Dayen explains how a new Goldman Sachs subprime mortgages fraud settlement with the Federal Government is a fraud. Why Goldman is not going to end up paying any actual money. Why Goldman’s punishment is like forcing a bank robber to open a lemonade stand. Who Goldman Sachs ripped off. Why the Federal government benefits […]

Washington Monthly Editor Haley Sweetland Edwards, explained why the success of financial reform will be determined by its implementation, what “position limits” are and why they matter, how lobbyists are undermining Dodd-Frank, how the regulatory apparatus works, and what the White House and public can do to guard and implement Dodd-Frank. On The Better Half: […]

A great on-air tax policy debate between professional leftist Sam Seder of The Majority Report and BigHollywood.com Editor John Nolte.

Matt Taibbi is a political reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. His latest article is titled ‘Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?’