WHAT PROGRESSIVES SHOULD FOCUS ON--AUDIOTAPE

FROM IAN MASTER'S BACKGROUND BRIEFING ON RADIO STATION KPFK

Jeff Madrick argues that the current political slant on things by liberals is wrong.  Focusing on the restoration of the middle class is the wrong strategy.  We should be focusing on the idea that human beings be virtue of their being humans are entitled to good jobs.  Hear the development of this argument as well as his focus on many other issues of interest to liberals.

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Then finally we discuss President Obama’s “Grand Bargain” to revive the economy and the report just out from the Dallas Fed “How Bad Was It? The Costs and Consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis” which conservatively estimates the damage at 14 trillion, the equivalent of one year’s U.S. GDP. The author of “Age of Greed: the Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present” Jeff Madrick, joins us. He contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and writes a column on economics for Harpers.