July 13 - Hillary Clinton's Speech on the Economy; Is the Greek Deal the "New Treaty of Versailles"?; The Union-Busting Presidential Candidate

Full Program

Part 1

We begin Hillary Clinton’s much-anticipated speech on the economy and get an analysis from Heidi Hartmann, the President of the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research and author of “Equal Pay for Working Families” and “Survival at the Bottom”. We discuss whether the Democratic front-runner for president’s attacks on Wall Street will resonate and how much Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are pulling Clinton to the left, or if the country itself has moved to the left on issues of inequality, the lack of wage growth and the need to change an economy that is rigged against the middle class.

Part 2

Then we speak with Thomas Ferguson, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a member of the advisory board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He joins us to discuss the European bailout deal that the Greek Prime Minister must now try to sell to his parliament and whether the $100 billion deal is, as the out-going Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varafoukis described it, “the new Treaty of Versailles”.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the latest, in fact the 17^th candidate to enter the Republican presidential primaries, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Brendan Fischer, General Counsel with the Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy joins us to discuss the career of a politician who has attracted a lot of support from wealthy donors by breaking unions in a largely blue state, but in doing so has made himself a polarizing figure who is unlikely to be able to be the president of all Americans.