Keith Discusses with Mike the recent financial history (from 'Reaganomics' onwards) that lead us to the financial meltdown last year. He mentions a similar theory to Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" that forced through the bank bailouts last year and says that it was a similar to the manipulation that went on leading up to the illegal invasion of Iraq. They also discuss Corporations in the context of a living creature that is happy as long as it's making money. In essence, Corporations as a whole have been acting like a money hungry creature with no emotions or ethics and what we need is real
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility">Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Personally, I consider this book required reading for President Obama and his administration (and anyone else who's interested in reading about a more environmentally and socially sustainable economic paradigm shift):
http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/eco/eco_table_of_contents">Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth(Link goes to an online PDF version of the book broken into different chapters)
Will add the transcript when it's available.
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