maybe, of some weird gold market somewhere in the middle east. anyway, go ahead, ari. how did your sources react to the book? most of them are not shocked about the findings. you know, my banking friends, some of them disagree with certain parts of it. but overall, i don t think there s anyone that realizes we really have not fixed the banking issue, the problem. it s got to mean something when mike mayo, who used to mike mayo, who was really, certainly when i was a financial reporter at bloomberg, whatever, i guess it was ten years ago, maybe the most influential banking analyst on wall street, would you not say? certainly two or three of them. one of the smartest, most respected. mike mayo really was the gold standard for the narrative on the financial industry. and when mike mayo comes out with a book, which he has, which has a similar narrative to what you have in zombie banks, a similar narrative to greedy bastard$! and all the other books that are addressing this,
somewhere in the middle east. anyway, go ahead, ari. how did your sources react to the book? most of them are not shocked about the findings. you know, my banking friends, some of them disagree with certain parts of it. but overall, i don t think there s anyone that realizes we really have not fixed the banking issue, the problem. it s got to mean something when mike mayo, who used to mike mayo, who was really, certainly when i was a financial reporter at bloomberg, whatever, i guess it was ten years ago, maybe the most influential banking analyst on wall street, would you not say? certainly two or three of them. one of the smartest, most respected. mike mayo really was the gold standard for the narrative on the financial industry. and when mike mayo comes out with a book, which he has, which has a similar narrative to what you have in zombie banks, a similar narrative to greedy bastard$! and all the other books that are addressing this, it has to mean something.
one of the reasons that immigration is going back to the top of the agenda. he appeared in washington, he thinks that will help him. and he s going to try and ride this banking issue. we re told that as soon as tomorrow, leader reid is going to force another vote, try and get republicans on the side of against rules and regulation. real quick, what s the relationship like personally with reid, durbin and schumer? they get along fine. if it were ugly, it would only hurt that person. you can hear arguments for both durbin and schumer getting it. i think schumer would be more a sign of change. durbin would be more continuity. aren t durbin and schumer roommates? they are. and literal room, they sleep in the same room. different couches. what? you know who else lives in there. who? della. a bad place. a bad reality show. it is.
don t give us money we are going to blow everybody to kingdom come the facilities are still there to bail them out. paul: sounds like this is a kabuki dance where everybody wants to posture as if they are against wall street many in the end wall street can do well because it has the means, the ability to hire the big lobbyists to go to the treasury, the fed and say you don t really want to regulate this too tough, do you? yeah, i say where is ron paul when we need him? what do i mean by that? we want to align the interests of wall street with main street. please what does main street have to do with banking any more. it is all big regional global financial institutions. if you go in this direction and the republicans sign on because they don t want the banking issue to get in their way for a big win in november this is going to have a
don t give us money we are going to blow everybody to kingdom come the facilities are still there to bail them out. paul: sounds like this is a kabuki dance where everybody wants to posture as if they are against wall street many in the end wall street can do well because it has the means, the ability to hire the big lobbyists to go to the treasury, the fed and say you don t really want to regulate this too tough, do you? yeah, i say where is ron paul when we need him? what do i mean by that? we want to align the interests of wall street with main street. please what does main street have to do with banking any more. it is all big regional global financial institutions. if you go in this direction and the republicans sign on because they don t want the banking issue to get in their way for a big win in november this is going to have a