Posted on 15 March 2017. Tags: AARP, Affordable Care Act, David Centner, Health Care, Robber Barons, Single Payer, Uber
24 million. Big number. The number of people who will be added to the ranks of those who have no health care coverage. More people will be sicker. More people will go bankrupt. More people will die. I go deep into the “Make America Sick Again” bill, also known as the repeal of Obamacare, and […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 18 January 2017. Tags: Donald Trump, Michael D'Antonio, Oxfam, Robber Barons
Just two days before an ignorant person gets the keys to the Oval Office, and wraps his tiny fingers around the nuclear button, I go in-depth with an expert on Trump: Michael D’Antonio, author of “The Truth About Trump”, gets into the real story, the one the incompetent transcribers of press releases (formerly known as […]
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Posted in Audio, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 16 November 2016. Tags: Apple, Bernie Sanders, Larry Cohen, Lori Wallach, Our Revolution, Robber Barons, TPP, Trans Pacific Partnership
Because we need to celebrate in these dark political days, give a listen to how YOU, and thousands of people like you, helped kill (hopefully, forever), the dastardly Trans Pacific Partnership. After a short primer on so-called “free trade”, Jonathan speaks with two key people who organized the opposition, Lori Wallach, the director of Global […]
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Posted in Podcast
Posted on 29 August 2011. Tags: Bailouts, Banks, Class Warfare, Dodd-Frank, Eric Schneiderman, Federal Reserve Board, Goldman Sachs, Greed, Gretchen Morgenson, J.P. Morgan, Jobs, Main Street, Robber Barons
What has been extraordinary to watch over the past 30-40 years is the way in which, when economic crisis strikes, the political and economic leadership of the country leaps into the breach to lend a hand–not to the regular people who suffered the most but, rather, to the very institutions and economic elites who […]
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Posted in General Interest