Michael Maxsenti: Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter

An important interview by Bill Moyers. Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter One of Ganz’s themes is the crucial role narrative plays in social movements. “I think it’s particularly important because doing the kind of work that movements do requires risk-taking, uncertainty, going up against the odds. And that takes a lot of hope,” …

SchwartzReport: Death of the American Dream & Other Pathologies

Five readers sent me this article this morning and told me they felt it perfectly described their lives, and their sense of entrapment. I just hate this trend, but facts are facts. Economist: I’ve crunched the numbers, and the American Dream is dead “America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or …

William K. Black Plus Randy Wray and Warren Mosler on Modern Money Theory for Public Purpose

William K. Black is a former Bank Regulator and expert on white collier crime especially control fraud you should. According to Bill Moyers, “The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused …

SchwartzReport: Joseph Stiglitz on Corporate Tax Dodging

It’s perfectly clear that the cuddling of the uber-rich must stop. Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz makes the point as well as anyone could. Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers BILL MOYERS – Moyers & Company A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying …