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Q&A with Les Leopold, author of The Looting of America
In Section: Daily DosePosted By: Lisa Kaiser

What was more horrifying than last year’s financial implosion: That it happened, or that the average person couldn’t make sense of it?

Can a Book on Derivatives Be Delightful?

Les Leopold, The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009. 220 pp.

Great teachers love metaphors. To help learners grasp the unfamiliar, great teachers — like Les Leopold, the founder of the respected Labor Institute in New York — latch on to realities students already understand. Leopold has been using metaphors, for decades, to help working men and women understand how our economy really works.

Another great book by Les Leopold

"[M]eticulously researched. . . Leopold's biography presents Mazzocchi warts and all, and through him a picture of the labor movement during an era of increasing corporate hostility and diminishing government protection of the right to unionize."

—Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

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How did we get here? What has the government done so far? What should our economy look like?

A New Way Forward is encouraging people to hold "teach ins", video screenings on June 10th! Go here!

http://www.anewwayforward.org/demonstrations

Here's a terrific 35 minute video to download and show at home (or at the public library or other event location).

I'll be posting great stuff here! :-)