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'13 Bankers' LIVE Video Interview Tomorrow, May 7, 2pm EDT: Simon Johnson Talks To HuffPost Senior Editor Marcus Baram

2010-05-06T06:15:07Z

Our month spent discussing "13 Bankers," Arianna's most recent book club pick, has been a busy one. Since its release, Simon Johnson and James Kwak's ...

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James Kwak: '13 Bankers': Who's In Charge, The Banks Or The Government?

2010-04-30T06:45:37Z

When push came to shove in late 2008, the banks' ultimate power was not that they were secretly controlling the levers of power, but that their place at the center of the financial system enabled them to hold the real economy hostage.

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William K. Black: 13 Bankers : The American Oligarchs And The Systemically Dangerous Institutions (SDIs) They Rule

2010-04-27T13:00:28Z

It is insane to allow the SDIs to continue to exist and it is doubly insane to allow, much less encourage, them to grow.

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Noam Scheiber: '13 Bankers': If The Megabanks Are Too Powerful To Regulate, Then They're Too Powerful To Shrink

2010-04-26T07:29:56Z

Anyone can talk tough when markets are calm. But in the middle of a financial crisis it takes a special breed of hard-ass to insist on haircuts, since no one can be sure that squeezing creditors won't shut down the entire bond market.

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James Kwak: '13 Bankers': How Big Are The Biggest Banks? If Derivatives Aren't Counted We Won't Know

2010-04-23T08:10:37Z

We need to have a more accurate grip on just how big our largest financial institutions already are, in order to show how much damage could be caused to the financial system in a crisis.

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Tyler Cowen: You Think The Government Doesn't Want Big Banks? Think Again

2010-04-19T07:49:27Z

How much political power do the big banks have? I'd like to air a skeptical note and ask whether they're really running the show.

To most people t...

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James Kwak: '13 Bankers' In 4 Pictures: Why Wall Street Profits Are Out Of Whack

2010-04-15T07:00:15Z

We're not saying that everyone has to agree with everything we say about these pictures. But they make clear what kind of financial system we have today. And they need some kind of explanation.

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Simon Johnson: '13 Bankers': Beware Of Banana Peels

2010-04-08T09:30:31Z

What we need is a change in the conventional wisdom in Washington, away from the idea that what is good for Wall Street is good for America, and toward the idea that we should be skeptical of the megabanks.

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Amy Hertz: What Arianna's Reading In April: A Hot Button Beyond Left And Right

2010-04-07T07:53:52Z

Arianna's reading a new book for April -- the fifth pick of HuffPost Books.

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'The Road From Ruin' LIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW HERE TODAY 11am EST: Economist Writer Matthew Bishop And HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin

2010-04-06T07:30:43Z

It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the f...

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Diana Taylor: 'The Road from Ruin': A Financial 411 System

2010-04-06T14:29:37Z

As Bishop and Green say in their book, information is a powerful tool. It is hard to solve a problem if you do not know it exists in the first place.

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Michael Green: 'The Road From Ruin': 10 Ways You Can Fix The Economy And Build Popular Capitalism

2010-04-05T08:25:37Z

It will not be easy for ordinary citizens to defeat the entrenched interests on Wall Street and in Washington, but things certainly won't change unless we take up the challenge.

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Amy Hertz: 'Road From Ruin' LIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW TOMORROW 11am EST: Economist Writer Matthew Bishop And HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin

2010-04-05T11:33:25Z

It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the financial crisis.

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Stephen M. Walt: Shadow Elite : March to War - Why the Neoconservatives Are Not a Cabal or Conspiracy

2010-04-01T07:00:40Z

I think there's no question that the neoconservatives played a central role in leading the United States into Iraq, but to characterize them as a cabal or conspiracy is misleading.

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Angel Cabrera, Ph.D.: 'The Road from Ruin': First, Do No Harm: Managers Need a Hippocratic Oath

2010-03-30T13:26:09Z

As true professionals, business leaders must accept their responsibility to create real, sustainable value.

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Graduation Gift Ideas: 12 Great Books For Grads (PHOTOS, POLL)

2010-05-28T07:30:18Z

Graduation season is upon us, and all of us seem to know at least someone who's graduating, whether it's from high school or from college. So what do ...

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Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Are We Naive Idiots For Thinking Business Can Be Anything But Greedy?

2010-03-25T07:30:37Z

We don't believe capitalism will ever be perfect, or that you can entirely drive out the dark side of human nature. But we can do a lot better than we have done so far.

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John Hope Bryant: 'The Road From Ruin': All Of Us Did A "Madoff" And Now Financial Literacy Must Be The New Civil Rights

2010-03-25T07:30:38Z

More people don't have a bank account today than didn't have the right to vote in 1963. If this is not a call for financial literacy as the new civil rights movement, I don't know what is.

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Bhagwan Chowdhry: 'The Road From Ruin': Why Are Vampires Rich?

2010-03-24T07:30:23Z

Ed Cullen, I am told, was born around 1901, and if he started putting away just $20 a month it would have been about 110 years in 2010. Assuming an interest rate of 5% per year makes, the savings grow to a little over one million dollars.

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'The Way We're Working Isn't Working'

2010-05-21T16:03:14Z

Mr. Schwartz's book might also have been titled "Better Working Through Better Living." It takes a look at self-destructive behaviors that are common ...

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Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)?

2010-03-19T07:37:45Z

What Senator Chris Dodd has put on the table will barely scratch the surface, given the changes that are needed to build a regulatory system that actually works.

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Amy Butte: 'The Road From Ruin': Sex Or Money? Which Is Harder To Talk About?

2010-03-18T07:30:43Z

Sex or money? Condoms or internal rate of return? Which of these highly charged topics and terms would you prefer (or prefer not) to talk to your kids about?

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Steven G. Brant: The Road From Ruin : Why We Are In The Driver's Seat

2010-03-15T07:49:21Z

The progressive community can choose to transform the business world from within, or it can try to destroy the corporate sector altogether, as nothing but a harm to society. The choice is up to us.

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Tony Schwartz: 'The Way We're Working Isn't Working' (POLL)

2010-05-13T06:00:11Z

We're in a new kind of energy crisis -- and this one's personal. Demand is overwhelming our capacity. We're running as fast as we can, but it's inexorably burning us down.

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Arianna Huffington: The World Is Changing, Are You?: Why The Way We're Working Isn't Working Is This Month's HuffPost Book Pick

2010-05-12T07:15:19Z

There is no mistaking that the way we're working isn't working. Figuring out why this is so -- and what we can do about it -- is the animating idea behind The Way We're Working Isn't Working.

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