Greece is the word! On today’s BradCast, financial journalist David Dayen joins us to explain the latest news in the Greek fiscal crisis and how austerity measures being forced on them continue to harm the nation even as the Eurozone and IMF move to make things worse, citizens head to the polls to help decide what to do about it and the “vultures” continue to make out like bandits.
“The problem is that these European institutions want Syriza [Greek’s currently ruling leftist party] to suffer because they want to snuff this out,” Dayen explains. “If an anti-austerity party is successful in one country in the Eurozone, that’s going to tell the rest of the Eurozone that they don’t have to live under these conditions anymore.”
Dayen also tips us off to a similar fiscal mess now unfolding in Puerto Rico and how, even though “FastTrack” authority for the TPP (and other trade agreements for the next six years) has now been passed by Congress and signed by Obama, the controversial secret trade agreement could still be blocked in the U.S. House.
Then, I explain the Supreme Court decision you probably didn’t hear about this week, which — though good in that it tells Republican “voter fraud” fraudster and KS Sec. of State Kris Kobach to go to hell — still leaves more than 30,000 otherwise perfectly legal voters in Kansas (and many in Arizona as well) unable to cast a vote in their own state.
Finally, Trump-mania continues as The Donald is fired by one group after another yet still manages to vault into 2nd place in Iowa polling. Donald Trump is the modern Republican Party id, whether they’ll admit it or not, and they’ve got a real problem on their hands. On the other hand, I couldn’t be enjoying it more!
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