Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson

Staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and author, The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

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What have we learned about causes of the financial crisis? Scott Patterson joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what caused the financial crisis, the people who created it, and the political committee that is supposed to recommend reforms.
Is securitization a good thing or a bad thing? Scott Patterson joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how securitization is a good thing unless you take it to the extreme, like Wall Street did.
Should we be concerned about innovation on Wall Street? Scott Patterson joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the difference between innovation on Main Street vs. Wall Street and the possibility that innovation on Wall Street is not such a good thing.