On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Time's Rana Foroohar, author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance & the Fall of American Business discuss the current state of capitalism. 

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-How Wall Street is choking our economy and how to fix it

-Why America doesn't make things anymore.

-What happened to the American dream of home ownership. 

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