EPISODE · Nov 27, 2025 · 16 MIN
Larry Summers, Epstein Emails and the Origin of the Great Recession
from WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast · host Scott Harris
Interview with Greg Palast, investigative journalist, New York Times best-selling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and filmmaker, conducted by Scott Harris.Palast talks about the recently released emails between Harvard University’s Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex trafficker of minors — emails in which Summers, who is married, seeks advice from the convicted predator on how to seduce a young economist he was mentoring at Harvard. Palast investigated international banking deregulation back in 2013 and discusses how these Epstein emails and his relationship with Larry Summers brought this important story about the 2008 Great Recession back into focus.
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Interview with Greg Palast, investigative journalist, New York Times best-selling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and filmmaker, conducted by Scott Harris.Palast talks about the recently released emails between Harvard University’s Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex trafficker of minors — emails in which Summers, who is married, seeks advice from the convicted predator on how to seduce a young economist he was mentoring at Harvard. Palast investigated international banking deregulation back in 2013 and discusses how these Epstein emails and his relationship with Larry Summers brought this important story about the 2008 Great Recession back into focus.
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