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Corruption in America's Banks?

by: Bill Moyers Journal, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

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Americans are currently wondering how they can hold bankers accountable. (Photo: S. Kambayashi)

    PBS Airtime: Friday, April 3, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS (check local listings here).

    The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980's. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. Also, Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media.

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I sure hope he talks about

 Thu, 04/02/2009 - 04:28 β€” Anonymous (not verified)
I sure hope he talks about fractional reserve banking and tells all about what a fraud that is. Also would love it if he mentions the "impossible contract" plus private ownership aspect of our monetary system which is the root cause of ever-ballooning federal debt.

I'll tell you what can't be

 Thu, 04/02/2009 - 06:45 β€” Diane (not verified)
I'll tell you what can't be mentioned ...even in the so called the "liberal" press...The peer reviewed, scientific studies that prove the twin towers and building 7 were destroyed in controlled demolitions. If there is another false flag attack on this country (as Chenney loves to predict.. if Obama doesn't man up and play with the big boys), it is sad to say that our friends in the liberal media will have failed us...

I had heard (only once) in

 Thu, 04/02/2009 - 07:41 β€” Babygoat (not verified)
I had heard (only once) in the media that several of the bailed out banks had given giant sums (Billions) of dollars to China, Dubai and Africa. Is there any truth to this ? If so, I might be angrier than I thought I was!!...We desperately need our right to a free press and for those responsible to be held accountable! At this rate and at the rate it's going, we will be "peasants forever!" When Obama spoke of CHANGE, I really expected more than my 2 cents worth! Get the culprits out of the way! Out of the Boardroom and get their hands out of our pockets! REGULATE-REGULATE-REGULATE! Their are smarter persons available, some even with a conscience and morals.

Please define "impossible

 Thu, 04/02/2009 - 15:00 β€” Anonymous (not verified)
Please define "impossible contract." There is something like that in Bridge. Also, yes, the Federal Reserve is a highly questionable privately-owned quasi-governmental cancer on the US Treasury which either needs to be abolished or completely revised so that the instant 6% inflation on every Federal Reserve Bank Note issued can be either reduced or abolished. It's absolutely nuts. It was established in 1913 as a result of a planned "bank crisis."

Yes, the government must

 Thu, 04/02/2009 - 19:02 β€” nora (not verified)
Yes, the government must take back the printing of money from private Federal Reserve from which the government borrows at interest. We elected a liberal and got the equivalent of another Reagan. Why is Nadar, Kusinich, Paul, not persons to whom Obama has given power? I am willing to give Pres. Obama time: after all it took an equally smart woman governor two terms just to clean up bush's two term mess. She never got any of her liberal programs, for which the people elected her, started. We really don't have that time and this administration has fouled the positions on which he won. Still, given the repub candidates what can one say, seriously? And yep, 9-11 was manufactured. When I heard I said, "Too convenient. Carlyle Group." We don't have the luxury of waiting two terms devoted solely to cleaning up after those jerks.

and that's why 'nora' 2010

 Fri, 04/03/2009 - 00:21 β€” Unplugged (not verified)
and that's why 'nora' 2010 U.S. Congress elections will be the most important elections since 1932; we need to elect as many progressive-democrats as possible