Saturday, April 27, 2013

Barbara Garson — Down Is a Dangerous Direction — How the 40-Year "Long Recession" Led to the Great Recession

If you had to date the Great Recession, you might say it started in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers vaporized over a weekend and a massive mortgage-based Ponzi scheme began to go down. By 2008, however, the majority of American workers had already endured a 40-year decline in wages, security, and hope -- a Long Recession of their own.
The Huffington Post
Down Is a Dangerous Direction — How the 40-Year "Long Recession" Led to the Great Recession
Barbara Garson | Author, 'Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession'
(h/t Clonal in the comments)

Also KPFA Podcast: Barbara Garson with Richard D. Wolff
(download until May 10, 2013)


2 comments:

Unknown said...

KPFA policy dictates that all programs with more than 30 seconds of copyrighted music will only be archived for 14 days on kpfa.org.

Unknown said...

Yep. You'd think those stupid tattoos the population is mutilating themselves with would make the PTB think "If they'll do that to themselves ..."