The Front-Line in the Global War Against Crony Capitalism, Regulatory Capture, Central Bank-Supported Lawlessness, and a Compromised Economics Profession

The following is a list  of individuals who have chosen to use their positions of prominence and influence to speak boldly about the tragedy that has unfolded in the United States, Europe, and beyond. They are confronting powerful individuals who who promote and profit off massive fraud. Being vocal about wrongdoing by powerful interests involves taking on significant risk.

In alphabetical order:

• Bill Black (Bill Moyers interview with Bill Black) (Max Keiser interview with BB) (UCLA Talk) (Elite Frauds Cause Recurrent, Intensifying Economic, Political and Moral Crises)
• Teri Buhl (www.teribuhl.com)
• Michael J. Burry (I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn't the Fed? 1/25/2011) (April 2011 Vanderbilt Talk) (UCLA 2012 Commencement Address)
• Karl Denninger (Interview with Dylan Ratigan)
• Tyler Durden (Interview with T.D. following zerohedge.com winning the First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism)
• Charles Ferguson  (Inside Job - the movie) (INET interview with CHF) (MIT Talk) (Predator Nation)
• Glenn Greenwald  (Democracy Now Interview, Oct 26, 2011) (With Liberty and Justice for Some)
• Jesse of Jesse's American Cafe (Interview with Jesse)
• Simon Johnson (13 Bankers) (Interviewed by Bill Moyers, April 2010) (Interviewed by Eliot Spitzer) 
• Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert
• Michael Krieger (interview with Max Keiser) (This is the Last Dance article, April 2010) (Elites Have Lost the Right to Rule) (Jan 14, 2012 Keiser Report)
• Lawrence Lessig (Interview with Dylan Ratigan, Jan 11, 2011) (fixcongressfirst.org) (Republic, Lost lecture)
• Harry Markopolos (King World News interview)
• Gretchen Morgenson (On CNN, naming Geithner and Bernanke as poster children of what is wrong) (Asking "Where are the criminal prosecutions?")
• Bill Moyers (Money and Politics video; 2:22)
• Nomi Prins
• Dylan Ratigan (2nd Anniversary of Lehman Collapse Interview) (I consider myself conservative)
• Robert Reich (Confessions of a Class Worrier) (The Secret Big Money Takeover of America)
• Barry Ritholtz (The Tragedy of the Obama Administration) (Gov't Must Extricate Itself, 11/21/2010) (Drawing the Correct Lessons from Lehman Bros, 3/11/2011) (Superb interview with Dylan Ratigan, 04/23/2011)
• Yves Smith (Reagonomics was pro business, not pro markets) (ECONned )
• Eliot Spitzer (Discussing Fraud at Lehman with Dylan Ratigan)
• Joseph Stiglitz (Fed is Chief Culprit) (On Development, 10/13/2010) (Who Sank the Global Economy, 2/14/2011)
• David Stockman (Four Deformations of the Apocalypse) (Trashing Obama's Economic Team) (Fed is Injecting Fiscal Heroin into the Economy) (2/4/2011 Criticism of Fed Policy)(9/30/2011 Interview with Chris Martenson)
• Matt Taibbi (On QE2) (Interview about Griftopia) (Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? Feb 16, 2011)
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Video where Taleb unloads on Rubin and bailouts) (Banks cannot be entrusted with risk taking) (On Antifragility)
• Janet Tavakoli (Goldman Sachs: Bullies on the Block) (November 6, 2010 interview with David Fry)
• Cenk Uygur (Appearing on Dylan Ratigan's show, October 2010)
• Christopher Whalen (It's the Fraud and Corruption...) (9/24/2010 Interview on the future of our broken system) (10/08/2010 We Bought a Year video) (Upcoming Book) (Fed is Completely Corrupt)

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