About to see can be viewed in entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org and using the search function at the top of the page. First in february of 2015 the American Enterprise institutes peter appeared on our Author Interview program afterwards where he argued that Government Housing policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Peter, your new book is called hidden in plain sight, what really caused the worlds financial crisis and why it can happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Commission which was investigating the causes to have 07, 08 financial crisis. What did you see that they didnt . I had been locking at the housing system in the United States, doddfrank and well, im sorry, doddfrank and fannie mae for quite a while before i got on the commission. I had a lot of background on what had been happening in the housing sector, so i was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and what role they had played in the housing c
Found initially is somewhat of a confusing puzzle. And that was perhaps best captured in this old usa today newspaper clippings. But it has been repeated a few times in a variety of different outlets. The notion that could recession be good for you. The headline confusing confused me at first. I had assumed that during the recession. Matt, Peoples Health insurance would be lost. They would stop paying for medications, they would be depressed, they would turn to alcohol. And this and other news stories were based on a series of studies that suggested during recessionary. , unemployment is associated with improvements in life expectancy, which i found really confusing. And what i want to do is present what i would argue as one solution to this apparent puzzle. In presenting the solution, i think that we can gain insights into why we might be asking some of the wrong questions when we correlate the recession to a lot of different things. But i will do his first talk about how we might lea
Are delighted. To pose questions such as the fundamental question that os has put before the nation and indeed the entire world, people of good faith, how do we live together with our deepest differences . There are a lot of differences. How can we live together with those differences . How can we live peacefully together . Differences can make as pretty uncomfortable, no matter what our background is, no matter how openminded we maybe, differences can bother us. We didnt hear things we not only dont like, but the we very deeply disagree with. We hear things that make us angry. To take action. With what were reading or what we are hearing and spoken on television and social media, were very concerned about what we are hearing and how do we live peacefully with those differences. And what this book is exploring. The call for a Global Public square, religious freedom and the making of the world safe for democracy. Join me again in welcoming os guinness. [applause] host to begin the conve
Cord lane, idaho, has been called a little slice of heaven by Barbara Walters and is on the list of the 1,000 places to visit before you die by patricia shut. While visiting the city, booktv spoke to Robert Carriker about his book. The book tells the story of the jesuit missionary who worked with the native american tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Was a jesuit missionary who was the most prominent catholic missionary in the 19th 19th century. He came to the Pacific Northwest in 1840. He was invited by native people, but being invited by native people is not the same thing as getting an assignment from the jesuits. Theurgies suit superior in st. Louis would have the jesuit superior in st. Louis would have too weigh what this extension of jesuits from st. Louis was going to cost. He wad an administrator. So when father found these indians in fact they found him. What happened was he was a missioner in moon the indians at council bluff, iowa, and one day he saw a group of canoes beaching
Public health more generally. And to do so ill present what i found initially as somewhat of a confusing puzzle. And that was perhaps best capture inside this old usa today newspaper clipping, but its been repeated a few times in a variety of different outlets. And that is this notion could recession be good for you . The headline confused me at first. I had assumed that during recessionary periods or Peoples Health insurance would be lost, they would stop paying for medications, become depressed, turn to alcohol. And yet this and other news stories were paced on a based on a series of studies that suggested that during recessionary periods such as the Great Depression, unemployment spikes were associated with improvements in Life Expectancy which i found really confusing. What i want to do is present what i would argue one solution to apparent puzzle, and in presenting the solution i think we can gain some insights into why we might be asking some of the wrong questions when we correl