Episodes
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
Economic Update - What's Wrong with Markets - 01/28/14
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
Tuesday Jan 21, 2014
Economic Update - Global Inequality - 01/24/13
Tuesday Jan 21, 2014
Tuesday Jan 21, 2014
Updates on Colorado's new marijuana shops, how context exposes "recovery" claims, cause and cure for US obesity epidemic, and France's 75% tax rate on annual incomes over $1.3 million. Major discussions of history and dimensions of global inequality and movements for guaranteed annual incomes in Switzerland and beyond. Responses to questions on credit unions versus private banks and on the uniqueness of the economic crisis in western Europe.
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014
Economic Update - The Trend to Inequality - 01/14/14
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014
Updates on economic decline and meanness, car sales in China, McDonalds embarrassed, Cuba exports doctors to Brazil, and a campaign to rescue higher education from "efficiency." Major discussions of conservative inequality denials and of the significance of "productivity" statistics. Response to question on the nature, origin, and meaning of "profit."
Tuesday Jan 07, 2014
Economic Update - Recent Economic History - 01/07/14
Tuesday Jan 07, 2014
Tuesday Jan 07, 2014
Updates on Wisconsin's public employees, the GRAT tax evasion, and the last 50 years of the "War on Pverty." Major discussions of the FED's "taper program," the Boulder, CO vote to produce electricity production itself, and evaluating 20 years of NAFTA. Response to emailed question on AIG bailout and its results.--
Bryan Isom
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013
Economic Update - There are alternatives - 12/31/13
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013
Updates on dangers in anti-bacterial soap, South African union to start socialist party, Germans retire abroad, billionaires' whims shape health care. Major discussions of Obamacare and alternatives to capitalist bank scandals. Responses to emails on worker coops in US and on "regulated capitalism."