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Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight in t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Live Local. Live Small.
Create big changes in your home, your finances
and your community.
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 06:32
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a BusinessWeek best seller soon to be in its ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 57:43
Successful homeownership is a fundamental part of the American dream. Rebuilding that dream is in our national interest, and crucial to our economi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
If one truly believes that all wealth derives from the heroic efforts of job creators and individual business leaders, it follows that government c...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 20, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
American's long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1% of th...
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy is the subtitle of professor Gar Alperovitz's updated work centering the most recent developme...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
Author, columnist and economics professor Robert H. Frank's new book, The Darwin Economy, describes what Darwin can teach us about building a bette...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
What happens when a group of friends get together to buy a house? That's what some people did in Portland, Oregon in 2003. The house is still owned...
Bought by Louisville Public Media
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 08:51
- Purchases: 1
Federal agents launched raids on medical marijuana operations across Montana this week...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 1
Charles Ferguson talks bodyguards, confrontation, and getting to the facts for his Oscar(tm)-winning documentary.
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 17:09
From: Jay Johnson
The Truth About Money with John Sakowicz & Jay Johnson
- Added: Oct 03, 2008
- Length: 57:14
- Added: Feb 15, 2008
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
Religion and politics are two topics your mother told you never to talk about in public - unless you're a customer at Father Peter's laundromat in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2008
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 2
A 70-year-old Southern California business is in jeopardy of being taken by eminent domain.
- Added: Jun 14, 2007
- Length: 03:07
A long feature on where millions of Oakland Port revenues go and why the ailing City of Oakland doesn't receive a penny of it.
- Added: Jun 14, 2005
- Length: 11:04