November 19

Full Program

Part 1

Part 2

Then we speak with Robert Kuttner, the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect about the extent to which the president has drunk the deficit Kool Aid which billionaires like Pete Peterson have been ladling out for decades. We discuss the deficit hoax and the need for further stimulus instead of the austerity that is crippling Europe.

Part 3

Then finally Gar Alperovitz joins us. He is an historian, political economist, activist and writer who believes that bottom-up solutions to empower Americans at the local level are possible as community banks and municipal utilities are beginning to grow as alternatives to the top-down Wall Street financialization of our economy. His forthcoming book is “What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution”.