Moyers & Company: How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy

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2012
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Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class shift the benefits of the economy to the very top, while saddling us with greater debt and tearing new holes in the safety net? Bill Moyers talks with former Citigroup Chairman John Reed and former Senator Byron Dorgan to explore a momentous instance: how the late-90’s merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group – and a friendly Presidential pen — brought down the Glass-Steagall Act, a crucial firewall between banks and investment firms which had protected consumers from financial calamity since the aftermath of the Great Depression. In effect, says Moyers, they “put the watchdog to sleep.” There’s no clearer example of the collusion between government and corporate finance than the Citicorp-Travelers merger, which — thanks to the removal of Glass-Steagall — enabled the formation of the financial behemoth known as Citigroup.

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On Winner-Take-All Politics

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Crony Capitalism

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How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy

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How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?

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Economic Malpractice and the Millennials

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E6

Decoding the Campaigns

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E7

Where Movies End and Politics Begins

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E8

Moving Beyond War

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E9

Standing Up For Democracy

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Gambling With Your Money

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An Optimist for Our Times

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E12

The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics

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Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble

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Between Two Worlds - Life on the Border

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E15

Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes

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E16

Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice

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Reckoning with Torture

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E18

Dark Money in Politics

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E19

How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy

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E20

Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past

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E21

Is Labor A Lost Cause?

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Banking on Greed

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Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’

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E24

What It’s Like to Go to War

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Suppressing the Vote

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Nuns, Faith and Politics

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E27

The Resurrection of Ralph Reed

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Challenging Power, Changing Politics

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The One Percent Court

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Elections for Sale

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E31

United States of ALEC

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Hispanic America’s Turn

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E33

Justice, Not Politics

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Plutocracy Rising

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What’s Behind the Presidential Campaign Messages?

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The Election is Over — Now What?

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Hurricanes, Capitalism & Democracy

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Big Media’s Power Play

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E39

Fiscal Cliffs and Fiscal Realities

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E40

Junot Díaz on Rewriting the Story of America

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What We Can Learn from Lincoln

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E42

Ending the Silence on Climate Change

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Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First

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Fighting for Filibuster Reform

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E45

Foul Play in the Senate, and Today’s Abortion Debate

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Are Drones Destroying our Democracy?

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Who’s Widening America’s Digital Divide?

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The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive

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Taming Capitalism Run Wild

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Fighting Creeping Creationism

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