Investigative Journalism, Securities Markets, and Succession with Jesse Eisinger

Chris and Kurt sit down with Jesse Eisinger, senior editor at ProPublica, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering the financial markets and the 2008 financial crisis, and author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives (2017). Their conversation focuses on reporting in the securities markets, his prophetic (and award-winning) writing about the fall of the housing market and its impacts, and his recent work as a consultant on the hit HBO show Succession.

Links for shownotes:

• “The Giant Pool of Money,” This American Life, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
• “You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire,” ProPublica, https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-higher-tax-rate-than-a-billionaire
• The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121367