The 'iEverything' and the Redistributional Imperative

Robert Reich Robert Reich
When more and more can be done by fewer and fewer people, the profits go to an ever-smaller circle of executives and owner-investors. It may be that a redistribution of income and wealth from the rich to the rest of us becomes the only means of making the future economy work.

SEC's Andrew Bowden at Stanford – A Regulator for Sale?

Andrew Bowden, the SEC's Director of the agency's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, speaks a bit too candidly at a March 5, 2015 conference at Sanford Law School conference, Emerging Regulatory Issues in Private Equity, Venture Capital, & Capital Formation in Silicon Valley.

New York Subway's Danny Small

Mitchell Hughes, aka Danny Small, originally from South Carolina, singing in the NYC subway station at 14th Street and 6th Avenue -- one cell in the musical lifeblood of a city.

Boom Bust Boom Trailer

Monty Python star Terry Jones co-wrote and co-directed this completely serious economics documentary, whose experts include Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J. Shiller and Paul Krugman.

Friday Nite Videos -- March 27, 2015

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Tom Lehrer -- We'll All Go Together When We Go. Detroit Man Beaten by Police Speaks Out. Boom Bust Boom Trailer. New York Subway's Danny Small. SEC's Andrew Bowden at Stanford – A Regulator for Sale?

Coney Island Exposed America's Spirit

Randy Shaw Beyond Chron
Coney Island's standing for some 147 years as inspiration for artists, from its inception as an elite seaside resort through its days as an entertainment mecca and leisure refuge for New York's working people, up to its more recent decline and the closing in 2008 of Astroland, its last iconic amusement park.