This month, CNS Reviews Editor Michael Goldman was a guest on the podcast culturalstudies to talk about his latest book, Hidden Empire of Finance: How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality. Situating his work within the current context of the violent Siege on Minneapolis, Goldman elaborates on how the White House and the alt-right movement thought it could add a violent exclamation mark to the killing off of our cities — already distressed by extractive debt and dispossession and the vanquishing of access to public goods and resources — this politically active city, primed by the George Floyd uprising, fought back. The podcast explains how Big Finance has commanded monopolistic power since the 2008 financial crisis and how grassroots organizing has begun to spread nationally and into new spaces of progressive urban politics.