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Three decades of add-debt-and-stir policies have come to the point of extreme wealth concentration for a few and broadly negative returns for everyone else.  Strucutral reforms designed to reduce debt and waste, increase opportunity and improve quality-of-life for the masses, are the path to greater financial and social stability.

Columbia University Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs and Frances Donald, head of macroeconomic strategy at Manulife Asset Management, examine the factors behind the growth of income inequality in the United States.  Here is a direct video link.

Danielle DiMartino Booth of Quill Intelligence on TD Ameritrade Network — Morning Trade Live re: FOMC meeting on Wednesday. Here is a direct video link.

One province in Canada is making companies pay for and manage recycling programs. But does it go far enough — or is it time for governments to step in with bold action?

The model is called “extended producer responsibility,” or EPR, and it’s regulated under a provincial law that came into force in B.C. in 2014.  See:  Canada’s recyclcing industry is on life-support, here’s how to fix it.  Here is a direct video link.