Amy Goodman Interviews Robert Scheer About ‘The Great American Stickup’
We've heard about the robber barons on Wall Street who brought on our current economic crisis, but they couldn't have done it without the help of key political players like Bill Clinton, for one, as Robert Scheer tells Amy Goodman in this "Democracy Now!" interview about his new book.Amy Goodman talks with Truthdig's Robert Scheer about Wall Street's robber barons and Scheer's new book in this "Democracy Now!" interview.
We’ve heard about the robber barons on Wall Street who brought on our current economic crisis, but they couldn’t have done it without the help of key political players like Bill Clinton, for one, as Robert Scheer tells Amy Goodman in this “Democracy Now!” interview about his new book, “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.”
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