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Bill Moyers in Conversation

‘Inequality for All’

Bill Moyers in Conversation

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News & Politics, Politics, Bill, Affairs, Public, Election, Moyers, Journal, 2016, Democracy, Pbs

4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moriars & Company, Robert

0:09.1

Risch, on what's gone wrong with our economy and how to fix it.

0:13.3

How do you constrain capitalism from doing stupid things that are not in the public interest?

0:20.0

You have a democracy that is sufficiently

0:23.2

well-functioning that laws and rules limit what can be done. If the democracy is corrupted

0:31.4

itself by that capitalist excess, then the first thing you've got to do is get big money out of politics.

0:39.1

At what point do you tip over, do you get to a tipping point where the degree of inequality

0:44.4

actually is threatening your economy, your society, your democracy?

0:50.4

And we talk about his new documentary, Inequality for All.

0:55.0

Thanks for joining us.

0:57.0

Odds are you know of my guest, Robert Reich.

1:02.0

Perhaps as the public servant he was under three administrations.

1:06.0

For his work as President Clinton's Secretary of Labor, Time magazine called him one of the best

1:11.2

cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. He's written 13 books, including this latest,

1:18.0

Beyond Outrage, What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It.

1:23.7

But you're about to see Professor Reich, who teaches public policy at the University of California, Berkeley,

1:29.1

in a wholly new light as the star of a dynamic, witty, and entertaining new film to be released next week in theaters across the country.

1:38.4

It's called Inequality for All and was directed by Jacob Cornbluth.

1:44.0

Here's the trailer.

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Now the thing you want to know about this, Minnie Cooper, is it is small.

1:50.0

We are in proportion, me and my car.

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My name is Robert Reich.

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