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Economic Update: Corporations Are the Problem

This episode covers Market Basket workers’ recent victory, top paid asset managers, Chipotle’s gross inequality, Montreal corruption and the Russia/China economic alliance.

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This episode covers Market Basket workers’ recent victory, top-paid asset managers, Chipotle’s gross inequality, Montreal corruption and the Russia/China economic alliance. We also continue the discussion on socialism’s new directions, and we respond to listeners’ questions on franchising, capitalist growth, advertising and consumer desires.

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