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Economic Update: From Ferguson to the Retirement Crisis
This episode covers inequality and growth and the economic lessons from Ferguson.
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Ya Basta: How Zapatismo Has Influenced the US
The music, art, culture and resistance of the Zapatistas have had a global influence.
Economic Update: Markets and Immigration
Updates on the drop in most Americans' household wealth and how Social Security finances are more about wages than aging.
Economic Update: From Bad Loans to Taxing the Property of the Wealthy
Updates on the Pentagon's overpayments; mortgages tilting toward the rich; the subprime car loan bubble; and silence about intangible property tax.
Why Are Women in Prison?: The Politics of Risk
This conversation probes our assumptions around danger, safety, gender, and the measures used to maintain “security” in a society pervaded by prisons.
Getting Out: The Journey Out of Prison
Nationally, American prisons release the equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston every year.
Economic Update: Civil Disobedience and Occupying Restaurants
Updates on fast food workers, GDP data, Salt Lake City dailies and bathroom breaks. Wolff interviews mental health counselor Harriet Fraad. Replies on FDR vs. Obama and on how …
Economic Update: Private Profit vs. Social Benefit
Updates on my Bill Maher appearance, the Arizona execution, direct actions in Seattle and in New England, Derek Jeter tickets, and the Chinese meat scandal.
Economic Update: Economic Realities
Updates on big bank fines; Tracy Morgan suing Walmart; highway trust and taxes; and extreme wealth inequality in the Hamptons.
Economic Update: Banks and Other Outrages
Updates on minimum wage in Europe vs. minimum wage in the US; the richest US families; and the economics of immigration.