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TPMtv: Lords of Finance

03.17.09 -- 4:55PM

I recently spoke with Liaquat Ahamed, an investment manager and author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, about three key central bank figures during the Great Depression. In our interview, he compares the current regulatory environment to the one in place in the 1920s-30s and reveals the things about the current downturn that keep him up at night:

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