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marmar

(77,102 posts) Mon Oct 28, 2013, 02:36 PM Oct 2013

Richard Wolff: "We can't afford private banks....They should become public institutions."

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by Richard Wolff.
Published on October 27, 2013

Updates on big banks' misdeeds, inadequate health care, the social costs of low wages, and Nobel prizes in economics. Major discussions about poverty and education and important economic events on Bolivia (workers taking over enterprises), Spain (indignados form new political Party X), and China (raising value of yuan to change China's and world's economy). Response to questions on (1) how Great Recession affects retirees and retirement, and (2) latest data on the highest incomes in US.

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Richard Wolff: "We can't afford private banks....They should become public institutions." (Original Post) marmar Oct 2013 OP

I fully agree, nationalize them gopiscrap Oct 2013 #1

Sanders/Warren in 2016 99th_Monkey Oct 2013 #2

K&R. Yes please! Overseas Oct 2013 #3

I'll settle for credit unions. L0oniX Nov 2013 #4

Yep. Nationalize them and put a branch in every Post Office....... socialist_n_TN Nov 2013 #5

Nationalize. K&R nt TBF Nov 2013 #6

gopiscrap

(23,765 posts)

1. I fully agree, nationalize them

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Mon Oct 28, 2013, 02:51 PM

Oct 2013

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

2. Sanders/Warren in 2016

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Oct 28, 2013, 03:04 PM

Oct 2013

Wolff for Sec. of Treasury.

Wolff is brilliant and knows his stuff.

If workers have a future, it looks like a massive wave of conversions
to worker-owned cooperatives.