The number that sticks in my mind today, and has since I heard it, is 40 percent. While over half a million people in the U.S. have died of COVID in one year, while millions of people have become sick, while millions of people have lost their jobs, savings and homes, and many people […]
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Episode 216: Wealth Tax On The Table; Two Trillion for The Global Poor; Joe Biden and Union Organizing
Posted on 03 March 2021.
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Episode 181: Greed Drove Retail’s COVID-19 Collapse; The IMF’s Trillion-Dollar Money Machine; Unleashing Rich Foundations’ Dough
Posted on 13 May 2020.
Here’s a no brainer observation: It would be hard to find any areas of agreement between the AFL-CIO and Goldman Sachs. Well, I got one—it turns out that the AFL-CIO and Goldman Sachs, along with scores of heads of states, labor folks and business titans, are on the same page about one idea which hasn’t […]
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Episode 51: No, We Are Not The Most Taxed Nation In The World
Posted on 11 October 2017.
That guy in the Oval Office can’t stop making up fibs. Yesterday, he repeated a lie: “We’re the highest taxed nation in the world”. Not even close. Which inspired me to look at lies about the economy. Thea Lee, the incoming president of the Economic Policy Institute, stops by to talk the truth about trade, […]
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