Topic: Banking Discrimination

2 chapters across the catalog

82: High Value Target
3:34:04 - 3:39:40

82: High Value Target

Faking Normal and the Aging Middle Class

Elizabeth White, author of "55, Unemployed and Faking Normal," shares her story of falling from a high-earning career at the World Bank to living on the edge of financial ruin. Despite her Harvard MBA, she faced severe age discrimination and was forced to use food stamps. The hosts use her story as a "cautionary tale" about the reality of aging alone in an economy that "phases out" older workers.

27: Lift-Gate
54:32 - 56:55

27: Lift-Gate

Conflating Stop and Frisk with Subprime Loans

A media segment featuring Karen Hunter is criticized for conflating the issues of stop-and-frisk and subprime lending. While the hosts acknowledge that systemic banking discrimination exists, they argue that Hunter's personal anecdote about taking a bad loan weakens the broader argument regarding institutional racism.