tom: how about the first sentence of larry lindsey's -- "thel effort american public is angry." for republicans and democrats. it is about inequality but much, much more. it is lawrence lindsey's primal scream about the elites. we welcome larry lindsey, working with reagan, bush 1, bush 2, and bush 3 did not work out. what happened with him yak of you are the expert. larry: jet was caught up in the times. he did not understand public anger. one example is what he did with the common core curriculum. the ruling class are people who think they know better than the public, and that is part of the problem. the common core idea was yet another test so the bureaucracy could measure schools. that is not what the public wants. they know perfectly well whether their schools are good or bad, so i think he signaled in a number of ways that although he was a good reform-minded conservative, and in another era may have been a great president. tom: let's go with a quote from the book here. he sets out his agenda. tom: when does the threatening start, larry? larry: well, i think the public has

larry lindsey, how would, how to characterize things right now in terms of the broader economy in theg on the way we have been bumping along. we have a low productivity economy. that means you're very modest economic growth. you have a lot of jobs that they are not good paying jobs and real wages continue to be in the weeks i did if i might add about we agree completely. this is not solving europe's problems. morris, it has the ecb now picking winners. they are a bit surprised too by high-grade corporate bonds. that is the rich helping the rich and the european context. the book title ruling class moves. that is -- that is what's going on here. the high-grade corporate in europe don't need financing. it is small business that need financing. it is small-business finance deregulation and the reduction in taxes, things like that. i don't think this will do anything for a euro. tree into that is the thing. look at these markets rally in the out. even in the face of this debate about whether or not the central banks are out of tools. obviously they are getting innovative here, larry with

larry lindsey joins us now, his new book called "conspiracies of the ruling class: how to break their researching it at the beginning of the last year. >> researching what? >> i started researching the book, trying to find out why people were as angry as they were. thank you very much for the -- >> researching the book, conspiracies of the ruling class. >> whatever you joke about sales, folks, just so you know what's going on. and what i found, i read a lot of what i used to think of as fringe literature, but a lot of it was spot-on. i think a lot of the criticisms of the accomplishment are correct and that's what i detailed in the book. i try to give an explanation for why people feel the way they are. i also suggest that, you know, maybe if people are angry, there are some constructive things you actually want the next president to do. and that's what they should focus on. who is going to actually bring about the kind of change people are looking for? >> so what are people angry about? what were some of the biggest conspiracies you found? >> the two big ones are, first of all, i wou

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