The context:
The impassioned and impromptu rant was recorded on the street outside the London offices of the Royal Bank of Scotland hours after it was announced that six banks on both sides of the Atlantic had been fined more than $4 billion for rigging foreign currency exchanges without any sign of forthcoming prosecutions.
And what’s great about this is that the man in the video, Paul Mason, is now economics editor for Channel 4 News in Britain. Financial journalism doesn’t to be about access and acceptance of the terms of the debate preferred by the powerful. It can actually give a damn and hold these people to account. I just hope that attitude spreads in the US media.
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