As the occupy movement in the US this week shifts its attention from the shiny crystallisations of high finance to the hubs of material circulation, Chris Wright reviews Paul Mattick Jr.'s book, Business as Usual, and asks: what is missed by shouting down only one aspect of capitalism?
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well, whether it s cutting social security, targeting medicare, or slashing the interest rate that retirees plan their golden years around at the federal reserve in order to bail out banks, there is no question that our country, america, is as a matter of policy making life harder and harder on older americans at a time when there are more of them than ever before. but that is not the least of it. our next guest says the retirement crisis is not just said, it is sinister. and her new book exposes not only what we re discussing, but specifically corporations that are making calculated efforts to pillage the pensions of the very workers in those companies, while in the process protecting executive compensation and raising profits reported on a quarterly basis. and joining us with the panel now is ellen schultz, investigative journalist for the wall street journal and the author of retirement heist: how companies plunder and profit from the nest eggs of american workers.
training program that hurt the employees. listen, donna, james, i appreciate both of you and joining the conversation and respecting my wish to avoid going too far down the downside debate in favor of a focus on what we could gain through improving this. i thank you both of you for your attention to this and for your analysis. thank you, donna. thank you, james. coming up here, wee w we, is true, my friends, new sign that the bailout is on the way. retirement heist as well a little later, companies plundering and profiting from your pensions. a new author exposes the lies and greed of those you trust in your own company to protect your nest egg. and for all the folks that skipped the book and just wait for the movie, a definitive answer on whether you re actually missing anything. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily.