How the Bailout Could Hurt Obama’s Agenda

How the Bailout Could Hurt Obama’s Agenda

How the Bailout Could Hurt Obama’s Agenda

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and New York Times columnist Thomas Freidman talk about how to fix the economy.

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Joe Scarborough kicks off the conversation by reading a substantial
portion of
vanden Heuvel’s new blog post
and then does his best “clueless suburban dad” when she suggests that
restoring regulation will necessary before we can
rebuild our broken economy. Thomas Freidman adds that regulations must
appropriately price the financial and environmental risks that have put
the world in peril. The segment runs into the commercial time (as
evidenced by the Tom Petty song that begins playing in the background
after the six minute mark) when Scarborough tries to tie vanden Heuvel
to “Euro capitalism… Euro zone–that’s not a dirty word?” Nope, it’s
two words.

Corbin Hiar

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