p tomorrow near the best to the restive
economic
and labor news you need to know this
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle
been talking a lot about the middle
class
that talk is cheap as long as they're
better as their bed in bed with Wall
Street
six years ago our economic system came
crashing down thanks to G
degenerate gamblers in their bankster
buddies on wall street.
a crash left 23 million Americans
without jobs
got one million families kicked out of
their homes but I'll legislators are
actually helping Wall Street set up the
same house of cards
all over again going to a recent article
by former Labour church secretary robert
reich
middle-class can't be saved unless Wall
Street is tamed
Secretary Ray she explains the banks the
brought down
our economy have only gotten bigger
since the financial crash
back in 2000 the five largest banks in
our country
el 25 percent of America's banking
assets today they hold almost half
meanwhile the Federal Reserve continues
to keep interest rates near zero
which means that Wall Street can borrow
money cheaper than ever and used to
gamble on high-risk bets
too big to jail banks like Goldman Sachs
and JP morgan
worked hard to keep financial
regulations like dodd-frank from having
any real bite
and now they've managed to wipe out what
little protection that regulation
provided to the american people
members of congress in 2016 presidential
hopefuls
have been swept up in a wave of talking
points about save in the middle class
but they're not doing anything to stop
the monster destroyed the middle class
the first place
and they're unlikely to do anything that
might weaken the stream of corporate
cash the flows into their campaigns
until our legislators put Main Street
had a wall street it won't risk upset in
the banksters
in all their claims about the saving the
middle class will be nothing but talk
it's up to us to remind them that talk
is cheap
and we wanna see some action when it
comes to regulating Wall Street there is
a new up-and-coming industry in our
country
according to new data from the ARCA you
group legal cannabis is the fastest
growing industry in the United States
researchers in that investment research
firm found that the legal pot industry
grew by 74 percent
20 2013 and 2014
data from state agencies non-profits in
private industry
ArcView calculated that the 2014 market
for legal cannabis
was 2.7 billion dollars up from one and
a half billion in the previous year
trade on our keys CEO said at this point
it's hard to imagine that any serious
business person was paying attention
as and spend some time thinking about
the possibilities up this market
just a few years ago talking about the
cannabis industry met a conversation
about crime
or another country and today it means
billions of dollars
%uh legal sales jobs and tax revenue
right here at home
support projects that recreational and
medical marijuana will create an $11
billion dollar market by 2019
means the legal pot will be bringing us
even more benefits in the future
Greece has had enough for posterity
last week the anti-austerity syriza
party won Greece's general election with
a clear mandate against bailouts the
destruction that nation's
social safety net newly elected prime
minister Alexis Paris
promise to renegotiate Greece's debt and
a reverse the harsh austerity measures
that have wreaked havoc
on the people that nation and its
economy response to the election results
leaders some other European
Union nations expressed concern about
the promises made by the News Leader
but that doesn't seem to be intimidating
mister separates one bit
rather than worrying about the EU the
IMF and European Central Bank AKA the
troika
a new party is focusing on the needs the
Greek people and they could inspire
similar groups and other nations
election could spark the beginning of
the end device Terry in the European
Union
and hopefully the rest to the world as
well sixteen states and our nation have
more people in prisons
than in college dormitories according to
a recent analysis over box dot com it's
clear that we need to do more to address
mass incarceration
which may start with changing our
priorities
our nation spends billions every year
locking people up for minor non-violent
offenses
in center investing more in education
that can help people avoid a life of
crime
begin with all the map over box doesn't
include college students who are living
off campus
illustrates how many people were putting
in a jail cell and set up a classroom
is not the type nation we should be
building
when you change your priorities as a
nation a stop spending money to destroy
people's futures
the criminal record and preventing them
from voting as well
and start investing in their future by
giving them a college education
and finally the US budget deficit will
shrink again in 2015 but other important
deficits will continue to grow without
congressional action
according to senator Bernie Sanders is
time for lawmakers to address
our deficits in education trade
infrastructure
retirement security and jobs last week
the Congressional Budget Office
projected that our budget deficit would
total $468 billion dollars at the end of
September
lowest it's been since 2007 however
senator Sanders is report says that the
CB 0 won't tell us
about the suffering of tens of millions
of Americans were part of the
disappearing middle-class
and worry about the kind of economy will
be leaving to their kids
and a quote is reporting explains how
and why we must address these other
deficits to regrow lower-middle-class
and put our nation back on a path the
shared prosperity
for far too long our lawmakers in
Congress have been obsessed with the
debt and budget deficit ever gotten how
we built the American Dream in the first
place
wanna go back to be in that great nation
it's time to focus on the deficits that
senator Sanders lays out in his new
report
that's the way it is for the week of
February 2nd
2015 I'm Thom Hartmann
on economic and labored
then
on
it
home
it
it
I'm
time
you
the
