Just over a year after the release of his Oscar-winning documentary “Inside Job,” Charles Ferguson returns to the topic of the 2008 financial crisis with his latest book “Predator Nation.”
In it, he points to the rise of “predatory finance” as both a symptom and the cause America’s fractured economy and political system.
He joins us today to talk about the book, the economy, and what has and hasn’t changed since the crash.
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