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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Robert Monks, Mehrsa Baradaran

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ralph’s Harvard Law School classmate and corporate governance expert, Robert A.G. Monks, explains how CEOs enrich themselves at the expense of productive investment.  And law professor, Mehrsa Baradaran proposes an alternative to puttingyour money into the big bad banks. 


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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.7

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting way too long.

0:18.8

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David Feldman. How are you today, David? Very excited about reading all the questions that people are sending into the Ralph Nader

0:25.6

radio hour.

0:27.5

And we are also here with the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

0:29.8

Hello, Ralph.

0:30.9

Hello, everybody. We have another informative and provocative show for you today

0:35.5

talking about all the stuff that doesn't get talked about enough. Last week we

0:39.7

had a great conversation with Nobie Prince, author of all the President's bankers who explain to us about how the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing is only really easing to Wall Street while leaving Main Street the Harder Road to Ho.

0:54.9

In the second half of the show we're going to continue our discussion of banking and money with

0:59.4

law professor Mersa Baradaran, who is the author of how the other half banks.

1:04.2

I assume the other half doesn't include us.

1:05.9

I don't know which half I'm in.

1:07.9

But we are also going to hear, as always, from Russell Mokieber, the corporate crime

1:11.4

reporter, and if we have time, we'll try to get to more

1:14.0

listener questions. But first, we're going to drill down on a topic that Ralph has

1:19.3

railed about on this show in a number of different contexts.

1:22.7

That is, stock buybacks and corporate inversions.

1:26.4

That is the trend of American companies

1:28.1

to take on a foreign partner to avoid US taxes.

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