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May 2010 Blog Posts (2)

The Game Plan That Keeps You Screwed to the Wall

The Fed's monetary policy of low interest rates favor the financial/corporate/mega-wealthy oligarchy with an increase in the money supply which encourages speculation that overvalue assets that form economic bubbles that collapse.

Tax policy favor the financial/corporate/mega-wealthy oligarchy by increasing their money supply which encourages speculation that overvalue assets that form economic bubbles that collapse.

The except below is from Fed Policy Stealing From Our… Continue

Added by Harold Hellickson on May 17, 2010 at 10:37am — No Comments

Encouraging Reflections on Activism - Jim Hightower and American populism

Bill Moyers sits down with populist Jim Hightower to look at the history and legacy of people's movements and discuss how ordinary people can reclaim political power. Hightower frames progressive views better than anyone I've heard, even George Lakoff. This was from the last episode of The Journal, which spanned 40 years. Moyers adds a cutting exclamation point on U.S. Plutocracy, but first, here is why Bill Moyers decided to end The… Continue

Added by Ice Goldberg on May 1, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments