Robert Scheer knows who's responsible for our tanked economy—and in his new book, he's not afraid to name names.
Robert ScheerAs American unemployment soars, there’s a shroud of confusion around who we can blame for the financial crisis. Though it’s been obscured in a cloud of legalese, Robert Scheer doesn’t think it’s that complicated—he can sum it up in five words: "Wall Street. What fucking thieves." In this video, Scheer names a few of the people he believes can directly take the blame for the crisis. He lays out the evidence in his new work of investigative journalism, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books). For more information, visit truthdig.com/greatamerican.
—Braden Goyette
Robert ScheerRobert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.