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The Growing Trend of 'Anticipatory Bribery'
Hillary and Bill Clinton have made more than $ 25 million for 104 speeches since the start of last year, according to disclosure forms filed with the Federal Election Commission in mid May – of which she delivered 51, earning more than $ 11 million of ...
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WE FUNDED WHAT? The US Government Funded Quack Medicine For Over Two Decades
The two guys you can blame for this are the now retired Iowa Democrat Senator Tom Harkin and left-wing “journalist” Bill Moyers. Harkin helped get “alternative medicine” funded by the National Institutes of Health. Moyers did a documentary series for ...
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May 3, 2015 by Ted 50 Comments

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | William K. Black on Fraud | PBS

As President Obama makes the case for strong financial reform, Bill Moyers sits down with veteran regulator William K. Black, who says Wall Street is already been breaking current rules.
Aired April 23, 2010 on PBS. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04232010/profile.html
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Richard Wolff's smart, blunt talk about the crisis of capitalism on his first Moyers & Company appearance was so compelling and provocative, we asked him to return. This time, the economics expert dives further into income inequality, analyzing the widening gap between a booming stock market and a population that increasingly lives in poverty. Wolff also takes questions sent in from around the world by our viewers.

Wolff taught economics for 35 years at the University of Massachusetts and is now visiting professor at The New School University in New York City. His books include Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.
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May 1, 2015 by Ted 11 Comments

David Stockman on Crony Capitalism – Bill Moyers & Company

Stockman explains how the courtship of politics and high finance rewards the super-rich and corporations.
(January 20, 2012) This weekend, continuing its sharp multi-episode focus on the intersection of money and politics, Moyers & Company explores the tight connection between Wall Street and the White House with David Stockman -- yes, that David Stockman — former budget director for President Reagan.

Now a businessman who says he was "taken to the woodshed" for telling the truth about the administration's tax policies, Stockman speaks candidly with Bill Moyers about how money dominates politics, distorting free markets and endangering democracy. "As a result," Stockman says, "we have neither capitalism nor democracy. We have crony capitalism."

Stockman shares details on how the courtship of politics and high finance have turned our economy into a private club that rewards the super-rich and corporations, leaving average Americans wondering how it could happen and who's really in charge.

"We now have an entitled class of Wall Street financiers and of corporate CEOs who believe the government is there to do... whatever it takes in order to keep the game going and their stock price moving upward," Stockman tells Moyers.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

What is crony capitalism?

What is crony capitalism?
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April 30, 2015 by Ted 35 Comments

Moyers & Company Show 141:Plutocracy Rising

Moyers & Company Show 141:Plutocracy Rising

The One Percent is not only increasing their share of wealth — they're using it to spread millions among political candidates who serve their interests. Example: Goldman Sachs, which gave more money than any other major American corporation to Barack Obama in 2008, is switching alliances this year; their employees have given 0,000 both to Mitt Romney's campaign and to the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. Why? Because, says the Wall Street Journal, the Goldman Sachs gang felt betrayed by President Obama's modest attempts at financial reform.

To discuss how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America's interest, Bill is joined by Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi, who regularly shines his spotlight on scandals involving big business and government, and journalist Chrystia Freeland, author of the new book Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.

Following the conversation, Bill shares his thoughts on corporate executives who -- enabled by the Citizens United ruling -- are strong-arming their employees to vote as they say, from the Murray Energy CEO who reportedly made his workers spend unpaid time at a pro-Romney rally; to David and Charles Koch, who sent anti-Obama and pro-Romney materials to the 45,000 employees of their subsidiary Georgia Pacific; to ASG Solutions boss Arthur Allen, who sent an intimidating email to his employees.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

For the first time in history, more than half of all members of Congress are millionaires. Of the 534-current members of Congress, at least 268-had an average net worth of million or more. While the US is faced with unprecedented issues surrounding unemployment, food stamps, social assistance and minimum wage rates, it begs the question: has the US turned into a plutocracy?

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