It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.