Economic Update - How The System Works - 07/16/13

Updates on rich investors buying up and converting foreclosed homes into rental properties, insurance companies prove that allowing guns into schools do not make them safer, gross pay packages for CEOs, effective corporate tax rates far below official 35%, US non-financial corporations hoarding cash, Australian pawn broker records fastest growth in country's retail sector. Major discussions of (a) IMF report on slowing global economy, and (b) why austerity and stimulus programs both do not work. Responses to listeners' question on state of Puerto Rican economy. Analysis of successful workers coop in Milwaukee.