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Crisis Management
How “The Big Short” Shorts Audiences Hoping to Understand the 2008 Financial Crisis
“The Big Short” dramatizes the 2008 financial crisis and attempts to make viewers sympathize with its primary beneficiaries.
Mother Nature’s Invisible Hand Strikes Back Against the Carbon Economy
The invisible hand of Mother Nature is just now beginning to settle accounts with the capitalist business model.
Economic Update: Fighting Right-Wing Economics
This episode provides updates on Flint's poisoned water, and more.
Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberalism Injects Violence Into Our Lives, and Fear Into Our Politics
Cultural critic Henry Giroux examines the ways in which conflict has entered the fabric of American life.
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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
The teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx's “Das Kapital.”
The Blood of the Earth: Agriculture, Land Rights and Haitian History
Ricot Jean-Pierre tells how inequitable control of land has devastated the vast majority throughout Haitian history.
Economic Update: What Capitalism Is
This episode provides updates on public pension looting, and more.
Beware of Philanthro-Capitalists Bearing Gifts
The philanthro-capitalists have silenced their critics. The question is how, and for how long.
The Duality of 21st-Century Capitalism
The silver lining to the exploitation of workers has been the ever-growing standard of living resulting from the expansion of capitalism.