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Bailout NationBarry Ritholtz explains how greed destroyed the American economic system.

By Daniel Gross and Win RosenfeldPosted Thursday, June 4, 2009, at 6:36 AM ET

The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Barry Ritholtz, author of the book Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.

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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. You can e-mail him at and follow him on Twitter. His latest book, Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, has just been published in paperback. Win Rosenfeld is the multimedia producer for The Big Money.
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