# Mehrsa Baradaran

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'On The Ledge' Of Systemic Financial Crisis, Fed Is Giving Life Support | Mehrsa Baradaran

Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of Law at UC Irvine, discusses the risks facing our financial system, as well as the consequences of neoliberalism "looting" America. *This video was recorded on May 9, 2024 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/510WZMFaqeh90Xk4jcE34s Listen on Apple Podcas…

Mehrsa Baradaran

We’re almost at the end of our season, just as the biggest sports leagues in the world come to the end of theirs (as our guest today says, it all revolves around oil, and maybe a bit of corruption and looting). Speaking of today’s guest, we’ve got on an expert in banking and the racial wealth gap w…

Holding on to Hope that Kamala Will Be Different

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com In our latest interview with a historian about the 2024 election, I welcomed Professor Mehrsa Baradaran back to Skipped History. An authority on inequality and banking history, I asked for her thoughts on Kama…

Navigating Money, Race, and Healing with Rahkim Sabree

Navigating Money, Race, and Healing with Rahkim Sabree.   In this episode, Rahkim Sabree joins the conversation to explore the intersection of financial trauma, race, and the challenges to financial empowerment. Rahkim, a seasoned financial coach, educator, and author, shares his journey from grow…

Tackling the Root Causes of Homelessness with Susan Thomas

What can donors do to address the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness? Susan Thomas, president of the Melville Charitable Trust, joins Phil and Grace to discuss the systems and barriers in place in the U.S. that result in well over a half million unhoused Americans. Susan draws on her own…

The Quiet Coup: Interview with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran

Episode 3 - The Quiet Coup: Interview with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran This is my conversation with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, banking law expert and professor at the UC Irvine School of Law.  We discussed Baradaran’s latest book, The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America, in which s…

Ep. 4: Broken Bootstraps

“To pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps” was originally a metaphor for the impossible. It’s now one of the most American of American idioms — encapsulating a belief that one’s fortunes and failures hinge on individual responsibility alone. It simultaneously obscures the systemic economic theft of B…

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America (with Mehrsa Baradaran)

Law professor Mehrsa Baradaran joins Nick and Goldy to reveal how neoliberalism wasn’t just a misguided economic theory—it was a “quiet coup” that rewired our laws, courts, and institutions to elevate capital above democracy. Drawing from her new book The Quiet Coup, Professor Baradaran explains ho…