The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich exposes where power lies in our system — and how it's used and abused. robertreich.substack.com
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The Rot at the Top (opens the original)
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There is no such thing as a “free market” (opens the original)
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Friends,One of the basic tenets of my “Wealth and Poverty” course — which is coming to you free each week right here on this substack — is that the so-called “free market” does not exist apart from the government laws and regulations that define and enforce it. I get into this more deeply in the course, but it’s important to understand the real issue isn’t whether the “free market” or the “government” determine how the system functions. The real issue is who benefits — and whether the laws and r
My advice to young people (opens the original)
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Friends,I’m now an old man who doesn’t presume to have anything important to tell young people on who are living through an entirely different time. Yet one of my young associates recently sat me down and asked some questions — and did a credible job of making me think I was saying something worthwhile. You’ll have to be the judge.<a class="button primary" href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/advice-to-young-people?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&am
Office Hours: The Most Important Lesson We’ve Learned from this Travesty? (opens the original)
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In Conversation with Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny, Trump, and the Midterms (opens the original)
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Friends, Five weeks from today, America will make a choice about the future of our democracy. Today I had a chance to talk about tyranny, Trump, and the upcoming midterm elections with Professor Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny as well as a number of other important books. Snyder specializes in the history of Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is currently Chair in Modern European History at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and was previously Professor
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