how many of you are from the washington area. how many of you are from outside washington? how many of your capitalists? how many anti-capitalists here. how many came because you think you will learn to invest in asia q2 we have two distinguished authors here and individuals and i know them both and let me introduce them and we will get into the background and conversation. to my immediate right is the author of this book can american capitalism survive? by steven pearlstein, steve is a native of boston area and he went to college at trinity and a number of things in the journalistic area after starting his own magazine in boston, worked at the washington post for many years and for his writing on the 2008 financial crisis he won the pulitzer prize. he is now the robinson professor of public affairs, in addition to writing for the washington post and writing books. talk about your book in one moment into his right is parag khanna who lives not in washington dc but singapo
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to report from the committee the nomination of brett kavanaugh to be associate justice of the supreme court. process live thursday morning starting at 9:30 eastern on c-span or c-span.org. host: our guess is steven pearlstein, washington post columnist, out with his latest book this month, can american capitalism survive? why greed is not good, opportunity is not equal and fairness will not make us poor. good morning, thank you for being with us. with your workck 10 years ago, you won a pulitzer prize about your work on the wall street collapse. what did you see and when? guest: i wrote the columns in 2007. the crisis began in the fall of 2008. by 2007, you were already beginning to see cracks in the mortgage market. you were beginning to see companies that were involved in packaging mortgages and selling them to investors on wall street going under. i said, that is sort of interesting. what were they doing? it did not take very much to lift up the rock and say they were wr
ago,mate 35 years republicans are calling it a last-minute stunt. the senate judiciary committee is still scheduled to vote on the nomination on thursday and a full senate vote is expected in the last week of september in just a moment. we will open phone lines in get your reaction in just a moment to all of these developments. democrats, kavanaugh confirmation process, [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] process, confirmation (202) 748-8000, that s the number for democrats. .epublicans, (202) 748-8001 sundayy money morning. we will get your calls in just a moment, we want to share with you these headlines from the charlotte observer. to give you a sense of how devastating the storm has been. epic rains hitting the region with more to come. darlene is following the story from the white house with the federal response and is with the associated press. let me begin with fema and the federal response from the carolinas. how is it going so far? good morning