“What’s so strange right now is the way in which fraud has seen a parallel breakdown in the realm of business, where we normally see it, and the realm of politics,” says University of Georgia historian Stephen Mihm.
This week, Christopher Lehmann analyzed the recent confluence of fraudster downfalls, from the bankruptcy of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, to snake oil doctor Mehmet Oz’s loss in the race for a Senate seat. “It’s wise not to read too much into the…Fraudsterdämmerung,” Lehmann says. “Still, students of the close alignment of rampant scamming and financial entrepreneurship note that we could be on the verge of a new culture-wide reassessment of late-capitalist fraud.”
On this week of the Start Making Sense podcast, a look into the untold life of the former FBI director, and a discussion about “originalism” and the Supreme Court.