Making Sense with Sam Harris
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Sam Harris
#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure
22 minutes Posted Apr 29, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
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Sam Harris speaks with Lloyd Blankfein about finance, politics, and the state of American society. They discuss Blankfein's memoir, Goldman Sachs and its role as a market maker, the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the AI investment bubble, wealth inequality and the rise of trillionaires, the crisis of antisemitism on the left and right, Trump-era corruption and the post-truth political environment, the national debt, and other topics.

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