Andrew Klavan: Wall Street On Trial

The Manhattan Institute is proud to present... the second in a series of animated videos created by Andrew Klavan, City Journal contributing editor and creator of "Klavan on the Culture"

Looking to blame someone for the recent financial crash, Occupy Wall Street protestors turned their wrath on America's bankers and corporations. But are the bulwarks of capitalism really just cartoon caricatures of selfishness and greed?

City Journal contributing editor Andrew Klavan—who actually is a cartoon caricature— takes a more in-depth look at the situation as the Manhattan Institute Presents: "WALL STREET ON TRIAL"

[BlackRose]

Seriously, Andre Klavan might be my favorite person at the moment. He got the whole concept in a single sitting to the 'T'.

[Omnicronimous]

Too big to fail Wall Street and Occupy Wall Street = Two sides of the same coin.

[zazjudo]

OH MY GOD this video is right down the middle

[Graeystone]

I like how Klavan drives home the difference between Capitalism(Good) and Crony Capitalism(Bad).

[isawaninterestingthing...]

How politics has changed. These people have my utmost respect, they saw the insanity before it went unbridled, and risked everything to call it out back when almost nobody was on their side.

God bless the people at the Daily Wire.

[bryandonovanjr.]

Hahaha PLEASE MAKE MORE of these cartoon style videos they are fucking hilarious. The green jobs answer man soo good too

[jermjam]

Wow! I can't believe someone finally got it right. Andrew klavan for President. He's got my vote.

[Arlesmon]

I like how he criticized both, the liberals and the big corporations using points about how their points where almost the same.
Nice job.

[bobthornton]

The problem with this video is that the banks were forced to give subprime loans. They wouldn't have failed if not for government regulations in the first place.

[arthurdavis]

I remember when Johnson was borrowing 25 billion a year. He talked about " Guns and Butter. " Then Reagan was borrowing 200 billion a year.

[arthurdavis]

It's obvious, you don't know the difference between hydro-fracking and hydraulic mining. In hydraulic mining, a hose sprays a powerful stream of water on a hillside. The sand and soil washes into sluices and a few specks are caught by riffles. When I was young I lived in a trailer park near Rancho Cordova, CA. About 15' behind my trailer was a field covered with rock, about 8" in diameter. Bare rock as far as the eye could see.

[lootgoon]

“Actually, it’s from the Bible”... 🤯🤯🤯
🤣🤣🤣 love these vids!

[tejolson]

I never understood that movement. I'm Canadian and we have a similar problem. What do rich people have to do with this problem? Rich people buy as much food as anyone else. I don't think it's the rich people. I think it's us and our views that are causing this. If I go into a hospital here, the ethnic population in that hospital will not reflect the ethnic population of the city itself. Hiring these unfortunate immigrants is clearly the right thing to do. Be a hero. Hire an immigrant!

[Kaotiqua]

Those who oppose are missing the point. Occupiers are not asking anyone to "give them money" and they are NOT a bunch of dirty teenagers who refuse to work for a living. The POINT is that our government allows corporations to buy in and control it at will, denying the rights of citizens to oppose, while providing them with tissue-paper delusions that they do indeed still have a say in what the government does, and what they allow corporations to do. That is Quintessentially American.

[arthurdavis]

I read your post, 2 days ago, " Bill Clinton rode off the success from Reagan's administration." What are you saying ? To me it sounds like you're saying the economy improved during the Reagan years, give him credit for that. The economy also improved during the Clinton years and he balanced the budget, and you want to give the credit to Reagan again. You right-wingers crack me up.

[wowsa]

The point is things aren't black and white. A program to redistribute wealth isn't automatically immoral. Businesses in the US are not more successful because they are more entrepreneurial, but because they operate in a country with a good deal of infrastructure already in place: an education system, many other businesses to trade with, wealthy consumers. This infrastructure was historically supported by state subsidy so I see no problem with taxing these businesses to provide services to people

[wowsa]

Aside from small scale farming, I struggle to think of any profession where people are self sufficient today, in the sense that they are able to create and sell their product or service all by themselves or using materials they buy from others. Most jobs are collective efforts with a group of people working to create a single product or service, and/or the workers require access to capital which they don't own themselves, and must effectively rent themselves to the owner of that capital.

[nsu]

@NeverSeenAsaskatoon What would be the incentive to take the risk of starting/running a business if your income is limited as you stipulated?

[Knorssman]

when this guy doesn't mention neo-con foreign policy, he seems pretty smart

just take the corporate subsidies analogy, and apply it to the military industrial complex, with the subsidies being more arms sales, from more wars

[kfreasstudio]

To GrowTheTruth: It's OK to call everyone "Sweetie"; actress Alex Kingston's character on "Dr. Who", Dr. River Song, does this all the time and I find it charming! :-)