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Moyers & Company
What the 1% Don't Want You to Know
Season 3
Episode 15
Bill talks with economist Paul Krugman about a new book that's the talk of academia, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty. It shows that two-thirds of America's increase in income inequality over the past four decades results from steep raises given to the country's highest earners. Krugman says: "We’re becoming very much the kind of society we imagined we're nothing like."
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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on the politics of reproductive freedom.
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Bill speaks with two journalists about the agenda of the Roberts court.
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Organized people versus organized money: the battle continues.
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Why facts, logic and reason are often missing in the rush to war.
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While Washington’s armchair warriors cry “back to Iraq,” a real warrior says no way.
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Our banks are larger than before the 2008 crash and they're still living dangerously.
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Economist Stiglitz says corporate tax abuse has helped make America unequal & undemocratic
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist on why America’s future prosperity depends on tax reform
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Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, about his cover stor
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David Suzuki says there's still hope for the planet, despite the greed of corporations.
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A scientist warns that we’re burning up the planet.
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