He is insignificant. Just another MSM whore ~ you're better off watching paint dry and listening to water evaporate.

Matthews is a looter shill. Why listen to this rubbish?
Deregulation IS the ANSWER. Deregulation did not cause the recent bank crisis, regulation did.
By regulation I mean the government awarded (regulated) banking by creating the federal reserve banking cartel and eliminated competition. Ditto for Wall St's cartel for creation of corporate financing that is regulated to prevent share issuance except when federally approved to do so. This is further exacerbated by borrowing to buy shares and insiders manipulating share prices using the rules they have created to benefit themselves. Without the ability to create credit (money) from nothing there would have been no crisis.

There is some quotable that relates a measure of your success by the measure of attacks by your enemies. I can't remember all of it now, but I think this is a great example of the impact of AR in today's political world. OOOAAHH!

Chris: I hate to break this too you, but it is the government interference in the market and the corollary that if a big business fails it's the responsibility of government to save the business for all our sakes.

First you tried to save us from the predatory practices of the railroads. Eventually you put them all out of business and we had to move to trucks for commercial freight and autos for personal transportation. Now you're trying to regulate those out of business for the good of the environment. In the meantime you've saddled us with an additional post office that you call Amtrak.

Government is incapable of running or regulating business. You have been engaged in the process of protecting the average American from the wealthy for over 100 years now. The wealthy have figured out how to play you like a fiddle and divide between them and the average citizen is bigger than ever. The other change that has happened is that the political class has joined the wealthy on the high side.

The only conclusion that can be made is that the average American is worse for your help. Please desist.

Matthews is a leftist-pig saying things just to draw attention to himself and his station. He knows nothing of the Tea Party that hasn't been fed to him and he probably can quote Mao with accuracy.

The lessons of AS are the polar opposite of Mao's Little Red Book. It is apparent which one Matthews prefers.

If there is a "Tea party" candidate for president in 2016 I wonder if Chris will claim that if he (or she) is eclected that all Americans will be required to read and be able to quote from Atlas Shrugged.

Of course that will never happen (the required reading), but the more "Atlas Shrugged" is mentioned by the Liberal press, the more the book will be read and the movies will be seen.

I don't think "Atlas Shrugged:Who Is John Galt?" could be release at a better time, especially since far more individuals will see the film than read the book. At least they will be able to draw "better" conclusions as opposed to "just believing" an absurd comment about the novel by someone who despises the principles on which the actions of its heroes are based.

"The Antitrust laws—an unenforceable, uncompliable, unjudicable mess of contradictions—have for decades kept American businessmen under a silent, growing reign of terror. Yet these laws were created and, to this day, are upheld by the “conservatives,” as a grim monument to their lack of political philosophy, of economic knowledge and of any concern with principles."

I would include Sarbane-Oxley and Dodd Frank Laws with Anti-Trust.

Thanks for posting this and introducing me to the NewsBusters website!

Does anyone really watch he of the tingly leg and his 2 dunderhead guests? Insert maniacal scream.