FIRE Podcast- Tim Carney: Left and right should agree on ending ‘too big to fail’
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As the Occupy Wall Street protests continue on, some observers have started to wonder about the potential for convergence among left-wing and right-wing populists. Jim Harper of the Cato Institute has attracted particular attention for popularizing this Venn diagram suggesting the common interests of OWS and the tea party movement.
In this week’s edition of the FIRE Podcast, R.J. Lehmann speaks with Tim Carney, senior political reporter with the Washington Examiner (and occasional McLaughlin Group panelist) about his recent experience camping out with the protestors in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Carney put forward his own thesis in a recent Examiner piece that proposes unifying Left and Right against the doctrine of “too big to fail,” concluding that “believers in the free market should stop giving banks cover.”
