This country, now more than ever, needs passionate debate and smart policy, a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work, and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. Ratigan has compiled brash and fresh solutions for building a new and better America, and with this book he has started the debate America deserves. Visit GreedyBastards.com to learn more about why and how we need to Get Money Out to restore our republic.

This country, now more than ever, needs passionate debate and smart policy, a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work, and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. Ratigan has compiled brash and fresh solutions for building a new and better America, and with this book he has started the debate America deserves. Visit GreedyBastards.com to learn more about why and how we need to Get Money Out to restore our republic.

It's another episode of Greedy Bastards Antidote. Today, we're talking about credit default swaps -- Greedy Bastards' favorite financial innovation of the past ten years. Think of a swap as an opportunity for financial companies to sell insurance on credit. In this podcast, you'll learn exactly what credit default swaps are, and why they're dangerous to our economy.

Our guest is Gretchen Morgenson - Gretchen is a business reporter/columnist at the New York Times where she also serves as Assistant Business and Financial Editor. She is co-author with Josh Rosner of the bestselling book Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

It's another episode of Greedy Bastards Antidote. Today, we're talking about credit default swaps -- Greedy Bastards' favorite financial innovation of the past ten years. Think of a swap as an opportunity for financial companies to sell insurance on credit. In this podcast, you'll learn exactly what credit default swaps are, and why they're dangerous to our economy.

Our guest is Gretchen Morgenson - Gretchen is a business reporter/columnist at the New York Times where she also serves as Assistant Business and Financial Editor. She is co-author with Josh Rosner of the bestselling book Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

It's another episode of Greedy Bastards Antidote. Today, we're talking about credit default swaps -- Greedy Bastards' favorite financial innovation of the past ten years. Think of a swap as an opportunity for financial companies to sell insurance on credit. In this podcast, you'll learn exactly what credit default swaps are, and why they're dangerous to our economy.

Our guest is Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, contributor to Ritholtz.com, and editor of the Insitutional Risk Analyst, a weekly news analysis and commentary on risk and the global political economy.

It's another episode of Greedy Bastards Antidote. Today, we're talking about credit default swaps -- Greedy Bastards' favorite financial innovation of the past ten years. Think of a swap as an opportunity for financial companies to sell insurance on credit. In this podcast, you'll learn exactly what credit default swaps are, and why they're dangerous to our economy.

Our guest is Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, contributor to Ritholtz.com, and editor of the Insitutional Risk Analyst, a weekly news analysis and commentary on risk and the global political economy.

Dylan talks to Dr. Jeffrey Brenner about hot-spotting in health care.

Dylan talks to Dr. Jeffrey Brenner about hot-spotting in health care.

In the first of our podcast series "Greedy Bastards Antidote," Dylan talks to David Banks, educational "hot-spotter" and founding principal of the Eagle Academy for Young Men, which runs schools for young men in the South Bronx, Brooklyn and Southeast Queens.

In the first of our podcast series "Greedy Bastards Antidote," Dylan talks to David Banks, educational "hot-spotter" and founding principal of the Eagle Academy for Young Men, which runs schools for young men in the South Bronx, Brooklyn and Southeast Queens.