Reform of the community re investment teact s is tied up with glass teagl the infamous banking de regulation bill pave the way for the two thousand eight financial crisis. The whole thing of making it work in various ways and having it do work that was not necessarily what it's architects innitially intended for it to do. And so, i mean, these are things that are like, fundamentally changing the mechanisms and institutions of the a, of the economy.
Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn.
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