The Tony Michaels Podcast
The Tony Michaels Podcast is no longer publishing new episodes. Regular publication ended in July 2026, and this feed remains online as an archive of more than 1,100 episodes about American politics, constitutional accountability, concentrated power, democracy and working people.
Tony Michaels now creates Five Minutes in America, a weekday radio and podcast storytelling series, and Along the Way, a weekly program about personal growth, citizenship and building a meaningful life. Both are published by The Coffman Chronicle.
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The Tony Michaels Podcast
Tucker Carlson CALLED Big Banks Drug Dealers | TMP #1070
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Tucker Carlson just called America's biggest banks "drug dealers."
And whether you agree with Tucker or not, he stumbled onto a question nobody in Washington seems willing to ask:
If borrowers have responsibilities, don't lenders have responsibilities too?
In today's show, Tony Michaels explores how Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal still speaks to the modern credit card crisis, why millions of Americans are using debt to maintain a standard of living their parents achieved with a paycheck, and how responsibility is supposed to run both ways.
This isn't really a story about credit cards.
It's a story about wages.
It's a story about affordability.
It's a story about whether the deal is still square for working people.
Featuring analysis from General Coffman's latest Coffman Chronicle article, "The Credit Card Crisis Is the Affordability Crisis."
https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/p/the-credit-card-crisis-is-the-affordability
If you love your country but don't trust concentrated power, you're in the right place.
