Carol Massar

financial markets, AI, private credit, transparency concerns, crypto prediction markets, and more.

Questions about whether these narratives are the right ones that lead to longer-term gains and prosperity for investors and for the country.

There's a lot of questions out there.

I have to say, that was one of the things in reading your book that I was like, wait, I think there was just an assumption that it was the market crash that caused the Great Depression.

Oh, yeah.

You know, listen, so many people on your book tours, like everybody's like, can 1929 happen again?

And I do wonder, is there a better, smarter question that we should be asking you, having done all this research and taken us back there, making us feel like we were in the room when it happened, you know, that we should be asking you?

Right.

People act on it quickly.

It's not systemic.

One of the questions we were kicking around when we were thinking about having our discussion with you is, is Wall Street greedier today?

We are talking with Andrew Ross Sork, and the book is 1929, Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation.

You know, politics got in the way of regulating banks and markets back then, and I think it was kind of fascinating to see some of that.

Is there a parallel to that today when you look at the activities, Andrew, coming out of the White House on things like cryptocurrencies, regulatory oversight?

Like, I just...

wonder how you see that.

Do we have that today?

I love that you went there because I keep wondering... We're hearing that a lot now.

Because we keep waiting.

We expect to hear an announcement.