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Week in Review: Fixing Capitalism
December 19, 2009
The economy seems to be stabilizing a bit, but as we’ve discussed many times, people are still suffering and jobless. Yet Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time’s Person of the Year.
Fixing Capitalism: Are Regulations Enough?
December 17, 2009
Are we just returning to pre-recession levels, or something better--or worse? Nicole Gelinas, fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington and Max Fraad Wolff of the New School join us to talk about regulation, government and private industry, and where to go from here.
Fixing Capitalism, Public Housing, and Kambale Musavuli
December 16, 2009
Breaking News: Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time’s Person of the Year. The recession's over! Not so fast.
LIVE AT NOON: Is Capitalism Worth Saving?
December 16, 2009
With the economic collapse last year, many mainstream voices suddenly started to talk about alternatives to capitalism. The economy seems to be stabilizing a bit, but as we've discussed many times, people are still suffering and jobless. Yet Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time's Man of the Year.
Week in Review: Jobs Crisis Needs Structural Solutions
December 12, 2009
Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Tim Casey of Legal Momentum and author of the report Battered by the Storm, Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress, and Max Fraad Wolff of The New School for Social Research talk about the solutions, short and long-term, for creating jobs, spreading them more equitably through the population, and fixing the structural problems with the economy that led to this recession.
Jobs Crisis Needs Structural Solutions
December 9, 2009
President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, saying that small businesses and green jobs were the way forward for the nation. He proposed shifting funds from the TARP program--the much-derided bank bailout--to job creation programs, and offered tax cuts and incentives.
Jobs, Thomas Frank, Copenhagen and Honduras
December 8, 2009
President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, but, our guests today note, the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country aren't just results of this current recession, and they will not be fixed simply by returning to where we were.
The Stimulus: Too Little, Too Late?
November 6, 2009
The Dow might be up and the economy might be growing, but where are all the jobs? With a multibilliondollar stimulus package facing criticism from Republicans for growing the deficit and from some on the left for being too small, we wonder just where the money did go.
Stimulate This, Fears of Fundamentalism, and Remembering Maine
November 5, 2009
Any real economic stimulus needs to make sure that the jobs created are good, with good benefits, living wages, and targeted to the people who need them the most.
Bank of America's Guerrilla Collection Tactics
July 23, 2009
Former Bank of America employee Chris Feener says that little has changed at BoA since the company received billions of dollars in tax-payer money. The company continues to use what Feener calls guerrilla collection tactics and compensates its employees based on the amount of debt they collect. Feener, who hadn't received a raise in several years, says that bonuses of five to $6,000 dollars were often awarded on a monthly basis.

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