Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121121:20:37:00
In the book a pattern you say you can see repeetding throughout american history, 19th century, the wall street meltdown. can you tell us what that pattern is and why we keep repeating it? >> yeah. the pattern goes back, in fact, early 1793. it's the beginning of the first bank of the united states. we have -- europeans lending to the u.s. really since the nation began. and lending to the country itself, but also, a lot of private lending and a lot of private lending is -- turns out to be not very good at paying it back and so the failure to pay back led to the 1819 panic. same thing in 1837 a...