Robert Scheer Knows Who to Blame for the Financial Crisis

Robert Scheer Knows Who to Blame for the Financial Crisis

Robert Scheer Knows Who to Blame for the Financial Crisis

Robert Scheer knows who’s responsible for our tanked economy—and in his new book, he’s not afraid to name names.

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As American unemployment soars, there’s a shroud of confusion around who we can blame for the financial crisis. Though it’s been obscured in a cloud of legalese, Robert Scheer doesn’t think it’s that complicated—he can sum it up in five words: "Wall Street. What fucking thieves." In this video, Scheer names a few of the people he believes can directly take the blame for the crisis. He lays out the evidence in his new work of investigative journalism, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books). For more information, visit truthdig.com/greatamerican.

Braden Goyette

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