Last week, I had the opportunity to appear on The Problem With Jon Stewart, one of the most popular podcasts in America. You can listen to the full episode here.

Jon and I talked about the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX and how political and media figures were seduced by Sam Bankman-Fried’s money, giving legitimacy to a fraudulent financial scheme. Last month, I wrote about how eight members of Congress—four Democrats and four Republicans—tried to get the Securities and Exchange Commission to stop an investigation into crypto firms, which we now know was investigating FTX. Most of those members of Congress received donations from FTX executives or their corporate PAC.

It’s the type of story that’s so old and familiar that we’ve been writing about it at the Prospect for more than thirty years, from the savings & loan scandal of the 1990s to the housing bubble and bust of 2008 to the crypto frauds of today.

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