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#1328 Iraq, Citizens United, Obamacare, The Tea Party and The Deepwater Horizon (A Look Back at 2010)

Posted on Episodes by · January 14, 2020 4:47 PM

Air Date: 1–14-2020

Today we take a look back at the year 2010 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2010 was an enormous year of news and I've been working on this episode so long that I can hardly remember life before I started.

#1323 Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control

Posted on Episodes by · December 07, 2019 12:00 PM

Air Date: 12–07-2019

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Today we take a look at the reaction to decades of the fetishization of privatization in the form of a reinvigorated movement for public ownership of institutions meant to serve the public such as utilities, banks, train systems and so on. But this isn't your grandfather's top-down public ownership, the new movement has bottom-up, accountable, democratic control of institutions at the very core of its mission.

#1238 Bailouts, Tea Parties, Torture, Fear, Health Care and Citizens United (A Look Back at 2009)

Posted on Episodes by · January 04, 2019 6:00 PM

Air Date: 1/4/2018

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Today we take a look back at the year 2009 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn.

#1213 Ten Years On (The Financial Crisis and Disastrous Recovery)

Posted on Episodes by · September 25, 2018 8:00 AM

Air Date: 9–25-2018

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Today we take a look at where we stand, now ten years on from the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. Inequality has spiked, the banks are more profitable than ever and not a single banker went to jail for fraud. Now we must look ahead to how we can better manage the next inevitable crash.