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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Middle Class Can’t Be Saved Unless Wall Street Is Tamed, and More
The banks that brought down our economy have only gotten bigger, and more.
You’ve Heard of Hip-Hop, but What About Krip-Hop?
Krip-Hop is an international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs.
Economic Update: Economics and Revolutions
This episode provides updates on political corruption, the Greek election results, Social Security taxes and the lessons of revolutions.
Matthaei Letter to Treasury Secretary Lew
Given persistent, pressing economic crises, the Obama administration should open an Office of Economic Innovation to consider systemic changes, and involve Marxists and heterodox economists to help visibilize possible …
Economic Update: Spinning Out of Control
This episode provides updates on Obama's State of the Union speech, and more.
Henry A. Giroux: Searching for Radical Democracy in the Ruins of Capitalism’s Economic Depravity
We can't just wait for neoliberal economics to tear apart society and then build from scratch.
Economic Update: Austerity Ends in Greece?
In this episode, we interview professor Peter Bratsis on the upcoming Greek election and ongoing struggles to end austerity.
Democrats’ Plan for Financial Transactions Tax Would Bring Financial Markets Into 21st Century
A proposed financial transactions tax is a move towards establishing a 21st century structure for financial markets.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Rule Change in the House Centers on Failed Policies of Reaganomics, and More
In today's On the News segment: Republicans know that trickle-down economics is no longer an easy sell, so they've wrapped up those bad policies into a new package, and …
Economic Update: Real vs. Fakenomics
This week's episode provides updates on rising health insurance costs, rebel economists and more.