#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

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

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#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure is an episode from Waking Up with Sam Harris by Waking Up with Sam Harris.

This episode is 22:04 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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