Thom Hartmann: Conversations with Great Minds with Les Leopold - The Looting of America, Pt 1

Thom Hartmann is joined by an author and columnist Les Leopold whose work is focused on holding Wall Street accountable for its crimes and raising awareness about the dangerous dependence of the American economy on the financial sector today. He is currently the executive director of the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute in New York - and his latest book is titled: The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity - and What We Can do About it.

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• Thom Hartmann
• Big Picture
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• Les Leopold
• The Looting of America
• Wall Street
• American economy
• Social Security
• pension
• unemployment
• Paul Ryan
• Ayn Rand
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[laurenmichellekinsey]

Does he mention how the banks used the legislative sell-outs in Delaware to get rid of the cap on interest rates? The Supreme Court helped them out. They said that if the banks could get rid of a cap on interest rates in one state, that meant they could do it in every state without having to go through the state's legislatures.

[superhack211]

damn this is so true

[LibertaerUeberAlles]

Oligarchs benefit from high-income taxes.

Hamilton was a Rothschild agent.

To help workers, legalize free-market currency. End the "Federal" Reserve!

Ron Paul 2012!

[099749]

01,40 - 2.4 million dollars an hour! That's a joke and a half, and what do hedge fund managers do? They buy up business' and destroy them often! So for ruining the free market he earns 2.4 million an hour.

[rickbar123]

We got some hard times comming.