Daily Briefing - Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written twelve books, including The Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinet, Supercapitalism, and his most recent, Aftershock. The Next Economy and America's Future. His "Marketplace" commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes, and he blogs at http://robertreich.org

FROM THE INTRO: I'm Ian Masters and today we will look into one subject in the news and that is our economy, and how it is benefiting only a few while abandoning most of us, and ironically as a result of the economic stress caused by a few oligarchs on Wall Street, the billionaires are about to pull of an electoral coup and benefit further from their greed by helping elect right wing populist shills for corporate America who ironically were originally propelled by anger at the Wall Street bailout but will end up rewarding the Wall Street oligarchs. Go figure…

Joining us to discuss the economy and how it will effect the upcoming election is someone who will provide us with a much more tempered, elegant and incisive analysis of our predicament, Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and the author of a brand new book we are offering up here today in support of The Daily Briefing and KPFK, Aftershock: The Next Economy And America’s Future

We will have as much of my interview with Robert Reich that I just completed, and as little as pitching as possible, but we do need your support to get this fund drive over with so that I can do what I should be doing and want to do, which is to provide you with coverage, information and analysis of this critical election and the candidates and issues involved in it during these last two weeks before the November 2nd election that may radically alter the direction and future of America.

818-985-5735 is the number to call with a $100 donation to The Daily Briefing and KPFK for Robert Reich’s new book Aftershock: The Next Economy And America’s Future  Let’s now go to Robert Reich…