One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]
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Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities
Posted in Agriculture, Economics Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, commoditization, Cuba, deregulation, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, financial industry, financial reform, food crisis, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, pork, Richard Levins, Science For the People, scientists, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street 14 Comments
James Carville says “fire, indict, fight”
In an op-ed posted on the CNN website yesterday, Democratic strategist James Carville warned Barack Obama that, unless he makes drastic changes now, he’ll likely lose the White House in 2012. Boiled down to three words, his advice to the President is this – fire, indict, fight. I wasn’t a huge fan of Clinton administration, […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Other, Politics Also tagged austerity, banking reform, Bill Clinton, crazy people, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Elmendorf, economic collapse, Eric Holder, getting fired, holding people responsible, investment banking, James Carville, Newt Gingrich, political strategy, Stalingrad, Wall Street 37 Comments
Bill Moyers on plutocracy
Bill Moyers spoke at Boston University a week or so ago, on the occasion of the the first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture. Here’s video, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Watch this video on YouTube You can find a full transcript at TruthOut.org, but here’s my favorite part. …Yet the isolation continues […]
Posted in Economics, Politics Also tagged A People’s History of the United States, Bill Moyers, Boston Univeristy, Citigroup, Edward R. Murrow, Fair Elections Now Act, get the money out of Washington, Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn Lecture Series, money in politics, Plutocracy, plutonomists, plutonomy, Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer, rich get richer, Roger D. Hodge, the growing gap between rich and poor, the veneration of wealth 11 Comments