When you look at the root causes of our current financial disaster, they can all be traced back to the disastrous policies put in place by Ronald Reagan in his never-ending quest to appease Wall Street. But the truth is that since the day Reagan took office, we haven’t had an American president that was willing to stand up to the corrupt bankers on Wall Street, and each of Reagan’s predecessors has managed to grant every wish they made. Mike Papantonio discuss what has happened to our financial sector with Robert Scheer, author of the new book “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.”
