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Spitzer: Wall Street will not be ‘too big to indict’ in 2013
In a commentary posted on his show’s website on Friday, Current TV host Eliot Spitzer predicted more Wall Street heavy hitters would be held accountable for their misdeeds next year. “Every major institution, just about, has been wrapped up in some significant scandal,” Spitzer said. “Let’s recognize two things: that…
Matt Taibbi: Libor scandal biggest ‘Wall Street-related story of this year’
On the Current TV show Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said that the underreported Libor scandal was the “the biggest story, Wall Street-related story, of this year.” “There’s been a whole spate of market manipulation-type cases that have popped up in the last year, not…
Eliot Spitzer slaps down Lou Dobbs for ‘right-to-work’ falsehood
Current TV host Eliot Spitzer called out Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Thursday night for falsely claiming that so-called “right-to-work” laws prevented employees from being forced to join a union. “Despite the president’s misleading suggestions to the contrary, Michigan workers still tonight have the right to form and join…
Eliot Spitzer: Why are we talking about ‘Obamaloney’ and ‘Romney Hood’?
On his show Thursday night, Current TV host Eliot Spitzer lamented that the mainstream media was focused on “Obamaloney” and “Romney Hood” while ignoring warnings about climate change. “Silliness has taken over — the capacity to raise tough issues dissipated, if not gone entirely,” he said. “Climate change appears to…
NASA scientist warns of mass extinction from global warming
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned Wednesday that human-made climate change could lead to the deaths of millions of species. “If we continue with business as usual this century, we will drive to extinction 20 to 50 percent of the species on the planet,” he…
MIT professor warns of ‘enormous disruption’ from rapid technological growth
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Erik Brynjolfsson on Monday warned that technological advancements were displacing workers at an ever growing rate. “Technology’s always been creating jobs, it’s always been destroying jobs,” he told Current TV host Eliot Spitzer. “Ninety percent of Americans used to work on farms in 1800.…
Publisher of The Nation warns of perpetual drone war
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, on Monday warned against approaching the fight against terrorism as a war. “This could be a perpetual war,” she told Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer. She said the destruction wrought by military operations could actually create more terrorists, leading to a cycle…
Eliot Spitzer: U.S. needs ‘big, old-fashioned Keynesian stimulus’
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Monday that the United States needed to invest in the public sector, because the country’s current policies clearly were not revving up the economy. “One thing that could help is a big, old-fashioned Keynesian stimulus,” he said on his Current TV show Viewpoint.…
Matt Taibbi blasts the JOBS Act: It almost boggles the mind
Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone on Monday slammed the loosening of regulations under the JOBS Act. “They’ve gone so far, it almost boggles the mind,” he told Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer. The bill was aimed at making it easier for small business’s to raise capital. But critics warned the…
What Eliot Spitzer’s new Current TV show really needs to do to get ratings
Do you remember watching disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer’s TV show on CNN? It’s okay, almost no one does, because it was almost universally terrible — and when they dumped his co-host, Kathleen Parker, it went from terrible to unwatchable. But despite his terrible track record and lack of personal…
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