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Thursday, July 10, 2014

C-SPAN Discussion Of Thomas Piketty's "Capital" With Senator Elizabeth Warren

Book Discussion on Capital in the 21st Century and A Fighting Chance
Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), author of A Fighting Chance. 
http://www.c-span.org/video/?319790-1/book-discussion-capital-21st-century-fighting-chance
Be sure to crank the volume control on the C-Span page. Otherwise Piketty's is frustratingly hared to hear.

Alan: In the C-Span interview above, Warren is brilliant on a number of issues, including the anchor of student debt which is sinking the nation from sea to shining sea. Warren reaches full stride -- indeed demonstrates why she will be president -- when she analyzes America's socio-political system, a system made from our cumulative choices -- and how we have chosen to modify our Democracy in such a way that we deliberately funnel resources into the wallets of the wealthy at the expense of The Middle Class and, by extension, at the expense of our rapidly declining Democracy.

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Thanks to friend Jim Sanfilipo for bringing this discussion to my attention.






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