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Economic Update: Economic Realities

Updates on big bank fines; Tracy Morgan suing Walmart; highway trust and taxes; and extreme wealth inequality in the Hamptons.

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Updates on big bank fines; Tracy Morgan suing Walmart; highway trust and taxes; and extreme wealth inequality in the Hamptons. Major discussions of workers’ self-directed enterprises and Oxfam’s data on extreme global wealth inequality. Response to listeners on relation of wages to prices, and on the economic “value” of solar, wind and green energy vs. coal, oil, gas and nuclear energy.

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