Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

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

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.