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Elizabeth Warren on factors ailing the middle class

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Danielle Park

Thanks to a regular reader in the Netherlands who sent me this link tonight. It is worth watching. Now Senator Elizabeth Warren–then a commercial/bankruptcy professor at Harvard Law School–gave this lecture in 2007 on the trends behind rising bankruptcy and … Continue reading →

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Matt Taibbi on “The Divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap”

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Danielle Park

Matt Taibbi talking about his book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap on Real Time with Bill Maher. Here is a direct video link. Sensitive readers beware: the clip includes some profane language.

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How the sins of banks and politicians drove us to financial crisis

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Danielle Park

Bloomberg’s Bob Ivry describes how Wall Street’s practices can be adapted to the seven deadly sins and how they impacted markets and the United States economy. Here is a direct video link. The downfall of regular people, democracy and the … Continue reading →

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