Daily Topics - Tuesday November 29th, 2016
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- Trump Wants Dissent To Be A Crime - a crime with a worse punishment than murder. Banishment was the ultimate punishment in earlier societies...THIS is the BEGINNING!
- Privatizing Schools is About To Go On Steroids - Blaine Winship, Moralnomics
- George Goehl, People's Action/People's Action Institute, On the Anti-Trump Resistance & Fighting Back Against Corporate Power
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I called in to the show to push for economic pluralism and understanding of real economics over junk monetarism.
Had I gotten a moment longer to speak, I would have stated lowering the top rate will just create more private debt. The top's (the 1%) savings have to be be balanced with debt by the rest of us, otherwise you have negative interest rates.
& in PDF
Here's my calculation in Excel. payments-private-debt (Excel)
& in PDF: payments-private-debt (PDF)