BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Rep. Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson | PBS

Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy.

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News & Politics

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• economy
• bailout
• foreclosures
• finance
• banking

[HYDRASHOQ]

Congress worried about a baseball player taking steroids, but they won't look into this? The govt has the wrong priorities!

[AbuBakerSmith]

The Bankers Killed Lincoln, Killed Kennedy, tried to kill Andrew Jackson several times& failed Until the American Citizens FORCE the Government to throw out the ILLEGAL Federal Reserve Criminals& Wall Street Crooks or the Citizens rise up as Stated by Thomas Jefferson& REFRESH the Tree of Liberty, you DO NOT have a nation but the corrupt international Bankers own YOU. But Americans will Not rise up, Holder said you were COWARDS and it seems he told the truth. Osama or Geithner, which is worse?

[Textynn]

The only people who this government and the law cares about is the financial elite. They are people and they are above the law. We are animals and we should be punished severely at every turn.

[voyeurdug]

Bunch of big banks tried - and failed - to sneak a basket of shenanigans (HR 3808) through Congress and onto Obama's desk. They succeeded zooming it through Congress at light-speed, but Obama pocket-vetoed it 10/7.

We owe a lot to Obama for stopping it, and we need to hold all (ALL) Congressmen to account for trying to rip us off... again. BTW, it was a few states' AG's who blew the whistle on this. Thank them, too.

This video is another reason to support public broadcasting.

[Mbains]

Go to minute 10:00 if you don't want to spend half an hour watching the whole 'tube. Watch for at least 1 minute where he points out what JPM Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon*, told his shareholders about fiscal 2008.

[furyofbongos]

Yes the banks absolutely suck, but why does the government, without whom none of these shenanigans could have happened never get it's share of the blame? All the government has to do is just stop it -- turn off the switch. But they don't. They dole out the money to the bankers. THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING THIS.

[antoconno]

Its a pity public representatives around the world werent as decent as this women. She gives me hope. Fair play to her.

[antoconno]

Why doesnt the American government authorise the Army to take the banks down?

[peterrehak1]

That guy got this thing messed up, if only STALIN, not ludvik knew, that was what people were saying all around the russia when they sent them inocent to gulag...he signed the orders himself,..

babrak obralma "dork robbedme" in my language is leading you to disaster, only because u so dumb, u dont know whats good for you, u need a leader....same in my country...

new zealand seems to me a good place to emigrate

[rojanieves]

13:28 Animal Farm..more like a Jungle Farm.

An intellectual adores another intellectual.

Simon is way off when he talks about Rahm E.

Rambo didn't fail

Rahm E. "Never let a good crisis go to waste" And they didn't make it go to waste, they made it count. Implementing the voulture strategy that they had ready. He never had any plans of

helping the people.

[teamlaguna]

@thirdcoastguy

 WE are with you in FLORIDA !!!

[lisajason111]

11:15 it is irresponsible to say irresponsible. why dont u give me the money to gamble why do u give them the money and power to gamble in the first place, if i had what goldman had, i'd do the same. stupid politicians, they got screwed by the smarttest ppl.