On January 19, Oxfam, the British Non-Profit Agency that tracks global poverty, released a report that shocked the world: 85 of the wealthiest people in the world own more wealth than 50% of the world's population.  Put another way: 85 individuals own more wealth than 3.5 billion people.  How is this possible? What does it mean? And, where is this leading? In this podcast Walker and Professor Dungey discuss the Oxfam report and put it in the context of our previous podcasts on wealth and Elite influence on public policy. 

http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-01-19/richest-1-will-own-more-all-rest-2016

Greece is running out of money. Will Tsipras keep his election promises to end austerity? Or, is Germany really prepared to let Greece leave the Euro zone. In our most recent podcast, Walker and Professor Dungey discuss the possible end of the road of one of Modernity's most grand economic, social, and political experiments.

Obama promises a middle class tax cut in the State of the Union but his idea is “dead on arrival”. Without a strong economy there can be no tax cut and while the President boosts about the strength of the American economy, Nick and Walker think differently.

In this episode we look at the Jan 25^th Greek elections and what they mean to the E.U. and the course of finance in Europe in the short term.

While in the what is not news section: the new Republican congress and is Jeb Bush running for president?

As 2014 draws to a close Professor Nick Dungey and host Walker Uhl check in on some prediction they made earlier in the year. In this episode we revisit a Podcast on voting in the United States. The episode is “The Rich Should Get More Votes” that aired in April 18^th 2014. In the podcast Nick and Walker talk about a Tom Perkins quote about the rich getting more votes. In this podcast we go back and revisit some quantitative data about this quote and what it mean to you.