Protecting Your Finances

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, to talk about how this important agency - created in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown and moribund in the Trump years - needs to start protecting consumers again. Plus, Ralph pays tribute to the late great muckraking journalist, James Ridgeway.

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.3	Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:15.4	My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman.
0:18.8	Hello, David.
0:19.8	Hello, everybody.
0:20.8	And the matter of the hour, Ralph Nader.
0:22.8	Hello, everybody.
0:23.8	Hold on to your pocketbooks.
0:25.8	Yes.
0:27.8	But before you do that,
0:29.8	I want to begin today, I want to take a moment to pay tribute
0:33.2	to another great progressive we have lost recently.
0:36.7	His name is James Ridgeway.
0:38.5	Ridgeway was an iconic, muck-raking journalist
0:41.8	in the tradition of Uptons and Claire and I at the Tower Bell.
0:45.1	And he wrote about a lot of important issues
0:47.2	throughout his career and exposed
0:48.7	a lot of corporate and government malfeasance.
0:51.8	We had him on the show a couple of years ago
0:53.4	to talk about his latest cause, which
0:55.9	was the issue of solitary confinement.
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