How Cash Is Becoming a Thing of the Past | DW Documentary

Sears Bankruptcy Engineered to Benefit Executives and Stiff Workers

Executives of Sears stand to gain up to $1 million in bonuses, should Sears be liquidated, and $500,000 if it’s restructured. Meanwhile, ordinary workers at Sears are being laid off without severance payments. Bill Black talks about how US bankruptcy law is rigged to favor executives

ON CONTACT: A History of Neoliberalism

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at City University of New York and author of "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" argues with Chris Hedges that Neoliberalism, the manta of the global corporate elites, has created the worst income inequality in American history.

Even for Local Taxes, the Rich Pay Far less Than the Poor

While much attention has been paid to Republican-backed tax cuts for the wealthiest, a new report reveals that even local levies take a greater share of income from the poor than the rich

SCOTUS Already Preparing To Deliver MAJOR Blow To Consumers

The now-solidly right wing US Supreme Court is on track to deliver some very serious blows to consumer protections and the rights of American citizens with court cases that have already been heard. These cases could severely alter the justice system in the United States and make it harder for consumers to hold corporate abusers accountable. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

Robert Reich: Trump's 30 Biggest Broken Promises

Robert Reich lists Trump's broken campaign pledges.

'Shameful': What's Driving the Global Housing Crisis? | Talk to Al Jazeera

Peter Schiff: The Markets Are Going to Collapse Due to Fed Raising Rates

Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff and Steven Quirk, executive vice president of TD Ameritrade’s trader group, on the Federal Reserve’s impact on the stock market and whether corporate earnings can help the market make a comeback.

Robert Reich: The Truth About Trump's Economy

Robert Reich explains why the myth of Trump's economic growth.

World Dumping US Debt & Hoarding Gold: De-dollarization Explained

In a special extended segment, Anya Parampil is joined by In Question producer Kei Pritsker, who explains why Russia, China, India, Japan, Turkey, Venezuela, and Iran have all made moves away from the dollar, including dumping their holdings of US debt and increasing their respective gold reserves.

Markets ‘Overdue for Correction’ – Richard Wolff

With markets in apparent decline, some analysts are worried that we are nearing market-correction or even full-scale recession. Economist Richard Wolff, founder of Democracy at Work, joins RT America’s Rick Sanchez to share his insights and expertise, arguing that Trump’s fiscal policies amount to “feathering his own nest” and will ultimately damage the economy.

Debt Bomb: Are We on the Brink of Another Global Financial Crisis?

This week marks a decade since the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. What became known as the Global Financial Crisis saw banks collapse and even whole countries teeter on the brink of insolvency. While much of the world fell into prolonged recession, Australia's economy narrowly avoided that fate - but 10 years on, many individual Australians are still paying the price. Now, there are new warnings from financial insiders that the global economy could be even more vulnerable to a repeat meltdown.

How Much Power Does Saudi Arabia Wield over the Global Economy? | Counting the Cost

Robert Reich: Trump's Brand Is Ayn Rand

Robert Reich explains why Ayn Rand's ideas have destroyed the common good.

Would You Buy a Home from Sears? These People Did and They Love It

Robert Reich: The Next Crash

Robert Reich explains why there will be another economic crash.

How to Prepare for the Next Global Recession | The Economist

A decade after the global recession, the world’s economy is vulnerable again. Ryan Avent, our economics columnist, considers how the next recession might happen—and what governments can do about it

Donald Trump: All the President's Profits | Fault Lines

As a candidate, Donald Trump railed against corruption on the campaign trail. And he used the perception of many Americans that their political system is rigged against them to win the White House. But as president, Trump has mixed private business and public duties in unprecedented ways.

Previous US presidents put their financial assets into a blind trust and sold their businesses before inauguration, to avoid the possibility of conflicts of interest. But Trump refused to divest from the more than 500 companies he owns under the umbrella of the Trump Organization. Instead, he put them into a trust and handed over day-to-day management to his sons.

"When Donald Trump said he was giving up running the businesses and putting it into a trust, I literally erupted in laughter. Donald Trump doesn't run any businesses, he is not a competent businessman. He leaves it up to other people. And furthermore, the trust that Donald set up, the sons have said they tell dad what's going on in the business," says David Cay Johnston, editor of DC Report and author of The Making of Donald Trump and It's Even Worse Than You Think.

"He can reach in and withdraw money at any time. Whether or not he has done so, we don't know. But this is not anything at all like a blind trust. This is like what you expect to see in a family business posing as a country," he adds.

The overlap between Trump's business activities and his role as president has given rise to allegations that he is leveraging his office for personal gain. These charges are laid out in a series of lawsuits, which allege that Trump is violating the Emoluments Clauses of the US Constitution, by accepting payments or benefits from foreign states as well as federal and state governments. The attorney general for the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, calls the Emoluments Clauses the United States' "oldest anti-corruption law."

With the attorney general of Maryland, Racine has brought a lawsuit (known as D.C. and Maryland v. Trump) focused on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, and the payments or benefits from foreign and domestic governments the president may be receiving there.

Fault Lines examines how the president's business dealings may have put him in conflict with the US constitution. And in a fractious mid-term election season, we ask constitutional law scholars and international corruption experts why it matters for democracy in the US.

The Corruption Is Out in the Open

The idea that political donors expect a specific policy result in exchange for their contribution is the very definition of corruption—and my Republican colleagues have no problem admitting that's what they're doing.

Mapping Poverty in America | The Economist

America is the richest country in the world, but it also has one of the biggest divides between rich and poor. What can a zip code reveal about inequality?