Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition Today we will be talking about conservatives and why they are not conserving anything anymore. In particular, the new form of conservatives the neo-con conservatives and the noble lie or the big lie. Remember the Occupy Wall St movements? And the population protesting the 1%? Some perspective is you were likely in the world’s 1%. The anger should have been directed towards the political systems that facilitated the behaviour that led to the GFC. Wrap up: Neocon Political ideology is framing policy to influence banking GFC initiated by past policies, like the Housing Urban Development Act in 1992 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (Freddie Mac) loans 30% of loans to low income households Glass Steagall episode link Clinton Cash book Why am I talking about all this? Clear up some conceptions, which is the point of Friday episodes When people talk about today’s conservative politicians, there is a good chance they are neoconservatives What is conservatism