Making sure history doesn’t repeat itself: Financial Crisis Committee’s search for answers
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
The first round of hearings of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission concluded last week and while they brought moments of high drama (the chair of JP Morgan Chase cavalierly explaining that financial crises normally happen every 5 – 7 years) they did not produce many answers. The Commission’s mission is to examine the causes of the financial crisis that has gripped the U.S. for the better part of two years, but it’s a daunting task made more difficult by the wide array of shadowy financial tools and techniques that led to so much systemic risk. Can the Commission dig down to root causes, will Congress take their recommendations seriously and will a clever finance industry just find new ways to dodge regulators and oversight?
Guests:
Phil Angelides, chair of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; former California State Treasurer
Bill Thomas, vice chair of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; former Republican Congressman representing Bakersfield & chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee
- Patt Morrison for January 20, 2010
- Making sure history doesn’t repeat itself: Financial Crisis Committee’s search for answers
- Democrats lose MA Senate seat, where does it leave health care?
- Dems’s the breaks: what do MA election results mean for 2010 elections?
- Chris Farrell’s “New Frugality”
- Rain, wind and mud – and more rain, wind and mud
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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