On The Record (4-27-26).
What Will the Next Bailout Look Like?
This week we zoomed out to take stock of the greatest financial heist in recorded history. Sixteen years of bailouts, money printing, and acronym soup that kept corporate America whole while the rest of us fell further behind. And then we took a quick detour into crypto, where Bitcoin is quietly creeping back up and the guy sitting on $62 billion worth of it really wants you to think that’s a sign you should buy in.
Show Notes
Clips
Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link
- 00:02:58 + 00:04:27 | CBS News: Elizabeth Warren grills Kevin Warsh about his financial assets, independence from Trump
- 00:08:38 | CNBC: Full interview with White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett
- 00:21:20 | The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder: Mamdani Is Rewriting The Democratic Playbook
Resources
- ProPublica: Bailout Tracker: Tracking Every Dollar and Every Recipient
- U.S. Department of the Treasury: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
- MIT Sloan: Here’s how much the 2008 bailouts really cost
- Levy Economics Institute: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bailout by Funding Facility and Recipient
- Parker Poe: Summary of the $2 Trillion Federal CARES Act
- U.S. Department of the Treasury: Airline and National Security Relief Programs
- Brookings Institution: What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis?
- U.S. Small Business Administration: Paycheck Protection Program
- U.S. Congressional Budget Office: Estimated Budgetary Effects of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Good Jobs First: Subsidy Tracker Top 100 Parent Companies
- The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder: Mamdani Is Rewriting The Democratic Playbook
- Bloomberg: Bitcoin’s Stealth Rally Has Traders Setting Sights on $80,000
- Bloomberg: Climate Change Is Already Showing Up in the Cost of Living
- Mother Jones: Number Go Up. The Oligarchy in Overdrive
- WSWS: El Salvador’s Bukele regime stages mass show trial for nearly 500 alleged gang members
Pod Love
- Straight White American Jesus: Project 2025 in Action
Book Love
- Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
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