#282 - Meltdown (w/ Alex Gibney and David Sirota) (Patreon)

In this very special episode, Luke talks to Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and many others) and investigative journalist David Sirota to discuss their new podcast series Meltdown. The series looks back on the 2008 financial crisis and mounts the case that the institutional response from Democrats still haunt politics today, and represents a skeleton key to understanding the current moment. NOTE: this conversation was recorded before this week's US elections, but has much to say about the results.

"Obama’s Failure to Adequately Respond to the 2008 Crisis Still Haunts American Politics" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/meltdown-gibney-sirota-podcast-obama-2008-financial-crisis

Check out "Meltdown" on Audible - https://audible.com/pd/The-Meltdown-Podcast