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Airtime: Friday, December 18, 2009, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).
Amid fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to health care, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street’s power over the federal government. Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and author of “The Squandering of America,” and Matt Taibbi is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and author of “The Great Derangement.”
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