Podcast for Saturday, October 10, 2009
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2009
- James B. Steele co-wrote the Vanity Fair article, “Good Billions After Bad,” with his investigative reporting partner Donald L. Barlett. Steele and Barlett are the only investigative journalism team to have won two Pulitzers and two National Magazine Awards. They are both contributing editors to Vanity Fair and editors-at-large for TIME magazine. Their most recent book is 2004′s “Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine” (Doubleday).
Vanity Fair’s sub-headline for “Good Billions After Bad” reads:
As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed.






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