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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The housing market collapse led to mass foreclosures and brought the global economy to its knees.

It inflicted widespread pain to most everyone, save for the bankers,

who, as Occupy Wall Street put it, got bailed out. The rest of us, paraphrasing the rest of that

chant, got sold out. But like most of capitalism's depredations, the crisis was not an equal opportunity disaster.

Mass foreclosures destroyed black wealth, much of it in home equity, to an excruciatingly disproportionate degree.

My guest today is Ryan Cooper, a national correspondent for the week where he covers politics, policy, and economics.

His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New Republic, and the nation.

And he just published a paper called Destruction of Black Wealth during the Obama presidency.

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