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Episode 9 : "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

America This Week

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The Wall Street Journal Report on the Insider Trading Activities of the Executive Branch

The Wall Street Journal has done a kind of massive reporting effort on the insider trading activities of the executive branch. But I think it was particularly them, not Congress, that was an issue in this story. You know, moral posturing at the macro scale with sort of petty interference at the micro scale seems to be the wave of the future for banking. The idea of some massive synergistic combination between the fact-checking world and the financial world was a really chilling thought.

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