{"id":19142,"date":"2014-12-22T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19142"},"modified":"2014-12-22T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:38:24","slug":"why-is-no-one-fighting-the-new-robber-barons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/12\/22\/why-is-no-one-fighting-the-new-robber-barons\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is No One Fighting the New Robber Barons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/12\/no-one-fighting-new-robber-barons.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" target=\"_blank\">Why is No One Fighting the New Robber Barons?<\/a> which introduces a Bill Moyers interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast week, Bill Moyers interviewed historian Steve Fraser on what he calls our Second Gilded Age. Despite the anodyne title of the segment, The New Robber Barons, it was really about why the American public has been so quiescent in the face of rapidly rising income inequality, while during the first Gilded Age, a wide range of groups rebelled against the wealth extraction operation. I encourage you to watch the segment in full or read the transcript.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114956900\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Steve Fraser eloquently makes many of the points I have been making on this blog over the 7 years that I have been writing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Why is No One Fighting the New Robber Barons? which introduces a Bill Moyers interview. Last week, Bill Moyers interviewed historian Steve Fraser on what he calls our Second Gilded Age. Despite the anodyne title of the segment, The New Robber Barons, it was really about why the American public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19144,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}