Episode

11/23 William Black: Austerity Will Kill the Economy & Zach Galifanakis & Ralph Neas

November 23, 2012

Financial fraud expert William Black explained why pushing for austerity in a economic crisis is illogical, how Europe plunged itself into a unnecessary recession and social crisis with austerity policies, why governments need to stimulate the economy,how Greece’s debt crisis is fundamentally different from America’s “debt crisis”, what the IRS does with your cash if you send it in to pay your taxes and how a “grand bargain” would be grand betrayal of the middle class and the poor.

And for Members only! interviews from the Air America archives with Zach Galifianakis (@galifianakisz) and Ralph Neas ( former head of People for the American Way.

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