How Fair is Banking? with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week on Getting Curious, we’re following the money to better understand banking in America and the history of the country’s racial wealth gap. Professor Mehrsa Baradaran joins Jonathan to discuss banking deserts, overdraft fees, home loans, and more. (Like, what are capital gains, even?!) Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law and associate dean at UC Irvine School of Law specializing in banking law and financial inequality. She is the author of How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money. Follow Professor Baradaran on Twitter and Instagram @mehrsabaradaran. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Check out all new Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year and welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for
0:05.2	a 40-minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.2	On today's episode I'm joined by University of California, Irvine School of Law Professor
0:16.1	Marissa Brotteron, where I ask her, how fair is banking?
0:23.2	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vaness. I'm so excited to welcome our guest,
0:27.8	who is a professor of law at the University of California Irvine School of Law Marissa Brotteron.
0:34.2	You are a writer, you're a professor of law, you are, which also I just had to get out of my system.
0:39.7	That part in Legally Blonde when we meet the law professor, like, I just, you are like this like
0:46.4	young fierce version. I'm like, I have jacked and I want to learn about law.
0:50.6	Thanks. I guess a good movie. It's such a good one. But you also authored two books that have both
0:58.9	been published by Harvard University Press, how the other half banks and the color of money,
1:03.6	black banks, and the racial wealth gap. So you're the perfect person to help us learn about
1:10.4	what is going on with race and the racial wealth gap. So I think, you know, I remember once as a
1:19.6	kid asking my stepdad, what is, like, what was the Gulf War about? And he, I was like five or six.
1:28.4	And he was like, well, you know, most wars are about money. And then I, you know, when I think
1:34.7	about it, it's like money, honey. It's kind of, I can't buy you happiness, but it sure can buy you
1:40.8	like security and safety and peace of mind. And it has a lot of value. And who gets money,
1:47.5	who gets to store it, who doesn't. And I think it's something that a lot of people have, we've,
1:51.2	we've talked about the gender, uh, wealth gap on this podcast before. I think I've really only
1:58.0	started to learn about, you know, a racial wealth gap, you know, very recently. Yeah. Um, so,
2:04.5	you know, I think when we talk about wealth, um, in the United States, and we're talking about
2:09.9	racial wealth gap, it is as exactly as you said, it's not just about what, how much money do you
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