Local business: Not just a smaller version of big business

Stacey Mitchell of the Institute for Self-Reliance says changing where you shop is only the first step:

Source: http://www.ilsr.org/

20,000 People a Year Die From Effects of Fossil Fuel Generation

Econ4’s own James Boyce calls out fossil fuel companies’ “low-level terrorism”, responsible for 20,000 American deaths every year.

From The Real News

Waste

The food thrown away in Europe and North America would be enough to feed all the hungry people in the world three times over.

 

Source: http://whypoverty.net/en_GB/video/128.

How the rich can create jobs: pay taxes!

Nick Hanauer, a successful capitalist, on why inequality is bad and taxes on the rich are good for job creation:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI

Pirate banking

James Henry, author of “The Price of Offshore,” interviewed by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman:

Source: http://vod.io/5xkGX/

America’s sick health system

Selling health insurance isn’t like selling shoes, as Econ4’s Gerald Friedman explains in this Real News Network interview:

Source: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8638.

Too-big-to-fail banks: Heads they win, tails we lose

Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism and Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone dissect the corrupt nexus between our financial system and our political system:

Source: http://billmoyers.com/segment/matt-taibbi-and-yves-smith-on-the-follies-of-big-banks-and-government/

Fatter Cats

Check out the astonishing rise in CEO pay in the United States:

Source: http://telltalechart.org/

Colbert: United Against Them

Stephen Colbert finds common ground between liberals and conservatives: blame immigrants for climate change.

Work less, live better

“One has to recapture the idea that there is something called a good life to which wealth is a means…”

Source: http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/neweconomics-org.