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From Making Sense with Sam Harris

#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

Published
April 29, 2026
Length
22:04

Audio is streamed from the publisher.

Show notes

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. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at [samharris.org/subscribe]( http://samharris.org/subscribe">samharris.org/subscribe.