more affluent, yet compared to countries much, much poorer, much more inequality, but have this extraordinary number of increase in people who can t work, socially isolated because of mental illness and the controversial thesis is that it is due to our heavy reliance on psychopharmaceuticals. it is an incredibly beautifully written book. very compelling and speaks to a deep problem. 1 in 76. a ton of us are related to people that have this problem. it s something or friends. when you think about the labor markets, these larger problems, you know, one social problem i often find is that if all you have is a hammer, all you see are nails. that s a great recommendation. i m going to look that book up. tom frank, very briefly? i know that boeing is pulling out of wichita. we were supposed to feel so sorry for them because they won t be able to ditch their factory in seattle but they are ditching their one in wichita. you know, in some ways this is this is really meaningful
enforcement and education of labor law disputes for private sector employees in this country. the nlrb has essentially was not functional for the first 14 months of the obama administration. it could not have a quorum. it had five people. it only had two. finally, they got it to three and when those appointments expired, it was back down to not being functional. the reason these three appointments happened was because the nlrb was not functioning. it would be as if the supreme court didn t have enough to rule on any cases. that was the case for 14 minutes. no one really knew about it and no one much cared except for the chamber of commerce, which was happy to see the nlrb not operational and enforcing labor law. the approximate cause of the way it has become political is the case that the nlrb brought a case against boeing when boeing threatened to move a plant from
held to account for his role in crafting the torture regime. we know republican obstructionism in the senate is so total and complete the president was even forced to reappointment this man, william boreman as printer of the united states. after serving in that role for a year, william boreman was forced to appoint his deputy because the senate never confirmed his nomination. printer of the united states. we know rick perry spent about $364 for every vote he got in iowa. we know in at least one poll he is tied with our friend buddy roemer in new hampshire. thanks to scientists at queens land there s apparently a new hybrid species of shark produced by two distinct species mating. we know such hybridization is extremely rare. we know they suspect global warming is responsible for altering ocean temperatures and expanding habitat of one of those types of sharks. we know earthquakes in youngstown, ohio, on christmas eve and on new year s eve were likely caused by fracing,
we have had a massive foreclosure crisis. there is a deep strain of populous anger how the financial sector has made billions of dollars on the back of ordinary people. if we can show that having a regulator in charge who is on the side of ordinary people, not captured, can actually deliver transparency, decency, eliminate some products that are toxic, i think it will make a huge difference. is there any danger of pushback? one of the jobs of this kind of regulator is going to be to make it harder to get a lot of forms of credit. one of the reasons the crisis happened, it was too easy to get credit in the united states. these better regulated financial systems we have been talking about with fondness and affection, which i think is correct, are places where it is a lot harder to get a mortgage. do you think there is going to be any danger of pushback? there was studies done, the
differently. what obama did is well, first, you start with george w. bush bailing out banks in the hoover way. strict cronyism, you know. like they were they were very serious about this crony all those goldman sachs guys bailing one another out, this kind of thing, handing out money to executives, all those bonuses, all that sort of thing. all of that had happened in the hoover days. but obama did something very different than roosevelt. obama accepted that, brought in timothy geithner to run his bailout program. roosevelt, by contrast, you know, completely rejected the hoover approach. you know, the open-handed bailout. in fact, he attacked hoover for it on the campaign trail. one of the ways in which he that s how he won. yes, right. but here s the thing. in our time, who s out there railing his bailouts? who screaming in the park? we all know the answer to that. it s not it s not liberals like you and me. i mean, i wish i were, you know. i wish i were. isn t occ