Rudy Havenstein — How to Fix America's Accountability Crisis (EP.255)
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 255
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Episode description
Rudy Havenstein is a writer and satirist known for his sharp critiques of America's sprawling institutions and the elites who run them.
He joins the show to discuss the accountability crisis in America — how it manifests across political life and, most importantly, what we can do to fix it.
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Show Notes:
- Why we should fear hyperinflation
- "The Fed is Congress' drug dealer"
- The Great Financial Crash & America's accountability crisis
- How to disagree agreeably
- How democracy REALLY works
- Why we should bring back Glass-Steagall
- The problem of cluelessness
- Solutions to the accountability crisis
- What has happened to investigative journalism?
- Why partisanship is overstated
- Rudy as World Emperor
- MORE!
Books Mentioned:
- Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval; by Jon Hilsenrath
- Deterring Democracy; by Noam Chomsky
- The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government; by Philip K. Howard
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