The Great Recession Panel

Sep 13, 2009

Brooklyn Book Festival

A panel discussion was held on the current economic recession. Topics included the causes, who is to blame, how it could have been anticipated or forestalled, its effects, and recovery. The discussion was moderated by Errol Louis. Justin Fox is the author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall .. Read More
A panel discussion was held on the current economic recession. Topics included the causes, who is to blame, how it could have been anticipated or forestalled, its effects, and recovery. The discussion was moderated by Errol Louis. Justin Fox is the author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (HarperBusiness; June 9, 2009). Naomi Klein, formerly a fellow at the London School of Economics, is the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books; January 1, 2007). Kai Wright is the author of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York (Beacon Press; January 7, 2008). "The Great Recession" was a noon panel of the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival, held in the Borough Hall Community Room.

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00:00:35 Unidentified Speaker GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR COMING. I THINK THAT MAYBE A FEW SEATS IN THE FRONT, BUT DON'T HOLD...
00:02:37 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS A FUNKY MIKE. FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS THE WORST RECESSION SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. AT LEAST...
00:03:42 Unidentified Speaker I THINK CERTAINLY PART OF THE BROADER IS INFORMATION. WE HAVE BEEN DOING SOME REPORTING ON IT. WE...
00:05:15 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, I AGREE.
00:05:18 Unidentified Speaker WE CAN HEAR YOU.
00:05:19 Unidentified Speaker IS THIS MIKE ON? IS IT ON NOW? IT IS ON NOW. OKAY. YEAH, I'M GOING TO NOT REPEAT WHAT JUSTIN AND...
00:07:37 Unidentified Speaker THE PRESIDENT AND FACULTY SPEAKING ON WALL STREET TOMORROW. IN PART IN COMMEMORATION IDEAS OF THE...
00:08:11 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I ALWAYS LIKE TO BLAME LARRY SUMMERS. [LAUGHTER]
00:08:21 Unidentified Speaker MY THOUGHT IS I WANT SOMEONE WHO'S NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIKE ME...
00:12:31 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WAS ADVOCATING DOING NOTHING. THE QUESTION WAS --
00:12:39 Unidentified Speaker THE CATO INSTITUTE WAS.
00:12:40 Unidentified Speaker THEY WAITED A WHILE. AFTER THEY ARE ALLOCATED THE MONEY, BUT THE ISSUE IS WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BAIL...
00:13:31 Unidentified Speaker WE NEED TO PROTECT THE IDEA THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DID IN THE PAST, RIGHT? I MEAN, AND GETTING...
00:15:54 Unidentified Speaker HAVE YOU OR ANYONE ELSE SEEN A MODEL PROGRAM THAT LOOKS HOPEFUL THAT WOULD GO MORE TO THE ROOT OF...
00:16:08 Unidentified Speaker THERE'S A LOT OF IDEAS OUT THERE, AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH TODAY. I THINK THE CONCEPT...
00:17:46 Unidentified Speaker ONE POINT THAT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE FAILURE TO REGULATE THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, THE...
00:18:45 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE ANTICIPATING A SUPREME COURT DECISION ON THAT VERY TOPIC, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT HELP ADDRESS...
00:19:19 Unidentified Speaker EVERYTHING I'VE SEEN -- WELL, YOU JUST CAN'T TELL AT THIS POINT BECAUSE WHAT THE POLLS ARE SAYING...
00:19:40 Unidentified Speaker I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I FOUND STRIKING ABOUT 2009, THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE HEARD NAOMI SAID BEFORE,...
00:20:59 Unidentified Speaker I ASSUME THAT WHERE ALL KEYNESIANS HERE OR WHERE IT LEADS THE MOTOR WITH THE IDEA THAT WHAT IS MOST...
00:21:31 Unidentified Speaker I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD DO WHAT'S IN THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL INTEREST AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE GOVERNMENT...
00:22:42 Unidentified Speaker I ALWAYS WORRY A LITTLE BIT WE LOOK AT IT FROM THE CONSUMPTION END, BECAUSE SO MUCH, THERE IS AN ...
00:27:03 Unidentified Speaker WHEN WE TALK ABOUT REREGULATION, THERE HAS BEEN A REMARKABLE SET OF REVELATIONS AROUND THE BERNIE...
00:30:47 Unidentified Speaker THAT SHAPED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AND HOW WE MOVED THROUGH IT. I DID WONDER WHAT THE LONG-TERM...
00:31:10 Unidentified Speaker MY FEAR IS THAT ONE THE WAYS IN WHICH THIS CRISIS, AND THIS YEAR OF RAISED HOPES AND DASHED HOPES,...
00:33:53 Unidentified Speaker WE ONCE KNEW THAT.
00:33:56 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN TOLD TO DEAL WITH THE CLIMATE CRISIS, CARBON TRADING, CABINET TRADE, THAT...
00:34:26 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S KIND OF BECAUSE THIS RISE OF MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT THAT OVER THE PAST...
00:35:55 Unidentified Speaker FURTHER THE POINT OF YOUR BOOK. ONE THE IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT THESE THEELIES, CORRECT, IS
00:36:02 Unidentified Speaker YUP.
00:36:04 Unidentified Speaker PEOPLE WHO HAD THE THEORIES, THE ACADEMICS, GOT RICH ON THEM.
00:36:09 Unidentified Speaker INCLUDING LARRY SUMMERS.
00:36:11 Unidentified Speaker INCLUDING LARRY SUMMERS. THAT'S PART OF HOW THESE GOOD IDEAS THAT DON'T WORK IN SOCIETY HAVE THE STAYING...
00:36:22 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, AND THAT IS MY ONE CONCERN ABOUT THIS IDEA OF THE REINVENTING OF ECONOMICS. ROBERT THE BIOGRAPHER...
00:36:58 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, BUT IT'S A CRUCIAL POINT. THERE ARE TWO REALLY DISSTRICT AN INTERRELATED COMPONENTS OF REVOLUTION...
00:38:55 Unidentified Speaker OFTEN SAYING THINGS OF THE COMMON SENSE, DRIVING COMMON SENSE OUT OF THE PUBLIC DEBATE THROUGH CREATING...
00:39:04 Unidentified Speaker WELL, IN THE SPIRIT OF BRINGING THE PEOPLE INTO THE CONVERSATION, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE QUESTIONS,...
00:39:22 Unidentified Speaker I'VE BEEN READING A BOOK BY THE ITALIAN AUTHOR IN WHICH HE TEACHES ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT...
00:39:59 Unidentified Speaker WELL SAID.
00:40:02 Unidentified Speaker I MEAN DEFINE CRIMINAL. AND FIRST -- BUT I DON'T. WELL, I DON'T KNOW. I'VE GOT TO SAY I THINK -- YOU...
00:40:17 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T KNOW. BUT I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T SAY THAT I WOULD ASSUME THAT WHAT WAS GOING ON WASN'T CRIMINAL....
00:40:47 Unidentified Speaker I SHOULD MENTION THAT --
00:40:49 Unidentified Speaker THERE'S ALSO SOME STRAIGHT UP CRIMINAL MONEY, JUST IN TERMS I'VE SPENT A LITTLE BIT OF TIME IN LATIN...
00:42:02 Unidentified Speaker INDEED.
00:42:05 Unidentified Speaker SIR, THIS IS FOR MS. KLEIN, I'M ALSO CANADIAN. IT'S A LITTLE OFF TOPIC, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE...
00:42:26 Unidentified Speaker IT'S NOT A BOYCOTT.
00:42:27 Unidentified Speaker PROTEST. I'M SORRY. IT'S TO COURAGEOUS BECAUSE YOU DOVE INTO THE WHOLE ISSUE, EVEN THOUGH THAT YOU...
00:42:49 Unidentified Speaker I DIDN'T WRITE THAT.
00:42:51 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE TOPIC.
00:42:53 Unidentified Speaker THANKS FOR COMING.
00:42:54 Unidentified Speaker HOW DO YOU HAVE THE BIG BALLS TO DO THAT?
00:42:57 Unidentified Speaker TAKE THE MICROPHONE AWAY FROM HIM.
00:43:00 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS ON C-SPAN EVERYBODY.
00:43:01 Unidentified Speaker ANY SERIOUS QUESTIONS HERE?
00:43:03 Unidentified Speaker YES, I THINK WE HAVE ONE IN THE BACK THERE.
00:43:08 Unidentified Speaker YES, HI, THE IDEA THAT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IS FAR FROM OVER, I'D LIKE TO GUYS TO ADDRESS THE IDEA...
00:43:32 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, AGAIN, I DON'T HAVE ANY. I CAN'T REMEMBER NUMBERS LIKE THAT. MY SENSE IS THOSE ARE THE KIND...
00:44:13 Unidentified Speaker WELL, IT'S GOING TO BE. THE BANKS THAT ARE IN THE MOST TROUBLE ARE THE MID SIZED TO SMALLER BANKS....
00:44:57 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WE CAN GET IN ONE MORE.
00:44:59 Unidentified Speaker I STILL SORT OF BELIEVE IN THE GOOD INTENTIONS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. AND MAYBE IT'S PARTIALLY...
00:45:50 Unidentified Speaker FINANCIAL SYSTEM TO THE ESSENTIAL TO THE KIND ECONOMY WE RUN. IN THE RIGHT PLACE, THEY ARE HELPFUL....
00:46:43 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE HUGE AMOUNT OF THEIR RESPONSE WAS DRIVEN BY FEAR. AND JUST NOT WANTING TO BE THE ONES...
00:48:53 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS GOING TO BE THE LAST WORD. I WANT TO THANK ALL THE AUTHORS.

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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