(2012/07/31) Banksta's Paradise (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 July 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #628
Banksta's Paradise
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Either Way - Mark Fiore - Air Date 6-4-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Either Way - Wilco
Ch. 4: Act 2: More Systemic Cheating on Wall Street - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-17-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Ch. 6: Act 3: Gun Control Brady Campaign - BotL activism update
Ch. 7: Song 3: Smokin from shootin - My Morning Jacket
Ch. 8: Act 4: Libor Explained in Three Minutes or Less - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 7-24-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Don't trust me - 3OH!3
Ch. 10: Act 5: FED Knew About LIBOR Scandal in 2007 - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-15-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Over my head - The Fray
Ch. 12: Act 6: Tax Havenality, Recipes For Trouble - The Bugle - Air Date 7-20-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Speak up - Luke Reynolds
Ch. 14: Act 7: The man who invented too big to fail recanted - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 7-26-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: My favorite game - The Cardigans
Ch. 16: Act 8: Breaking Up the Big Banks in Two Minutes or Less - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 7-25-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
Ch. 18: Act 9: Traders To Consciously Permit Mass Starvation - Howdyland.com - Air Date: 7-27-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Africa - Toto
Ch. 20: Act 10: How Banksters Screw The Average Guy - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-13-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, where details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at bestofaleth.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcasts with Composte from martfiora.com, |
| 0:13.2 | the Majority Report, a Best of Left activism update, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Young Turks, |
| 0:17.7 | The Bugle, The Tom Hartman Program, and Howdyland.com. |
| 0:21.2 | And note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode may be found offensive by anyone |
| 0:24.5 | resembling Rich Uncle Pennybags from the Monopoly board game. |
| 0:30.0 | In this country of ours so proud, strong, and free, we did things and made things the whole |
| 0:37.2 | world could see, but times they have changed. Now we needn't get dirty, since Wall Street |
| 0:44.0 | makes things so many find pretty. It's all different now, thanks to the banker's |
| 0:50.2 | ascendance, inventing new paper contraptions for I finished this sentence. We'll package |
| 0:56.6 | and bundle and wager and bet what's good for the streets will be good for you yet. |
| 1:02.4 | And if things should go wrong and our faces turn pale, our most favorite part is we're |
| 1:09.1 | too big to fail. Now cabbies and pickers will pick up the slack. Your taxes will bring |
| 1:16.3 | the bankers right back to the top where we keep spreading good news of deregulation |
| 1:23.8 | and our free market views. We know what we're doing. Just stop with the rules with our proven |
| 1:31.7 | track records, see? Regulations for fools. Now we're buying both sides to do a good bidding. |
| 1:40.0 | That whole democracy thing surely you're kidding. With money, our speech, the whole world's |
| 1:47.7 | our play to make sure we win either way. |
| 2:17.9 | The story in the New York Times today apropos in particular if you are reading that key loss in |
| 2:37.4 | book that we interviewed him about four last Friday, the octopus. That book is so fantastic |
| 2:45.9 | because it actually there's multiple stories wrapped up there. One is just the incredible corruption |
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