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How Fair is Banking? with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Power Isn't a Law, It's About Power

In the 16 19 project, we hear an that, i think it's a second episode, they're talking about the banking crashes of like, eight the 18 twenties. Once the enslaved peoples were free and emancipated, it was like cotton industry is almost like too big to fail. It's on too big to fellows, just who who has power? Heperson that has power controls the levers of law making. And so power ends up recreating its own power unless there are wide scale sort of social movements.

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