Aram Zucker-Scharff

“”I’ve been in several conflict zones: I was in the civil war regions in Georgia, the Gaza strip, illegally visited the Kaliningrad region when travel to the Soviet Union was still strictly prohibited for westerners, I’ve been in Iraq, Vietnam and in China, I’ve met Cuba dissidents. But to be arrested and yelled at and be rudely treated by police? For that I had to travel to Ferguson and St. Louis in the United States of America.””

– 6 more journalists arrested in Ferguson protests.

Economic recovery! Housing recovery! Everyone is doing just awesome, that’s why people are doing this sweet tiny house innovation, because living in a shipping container apartment or using rainwater to wash yourself is oh so fun! Excelsior!

The Family Dollar deal embodies everything wrong with American capitalism:

The French economist Thomas Piketty could not have dreamed up a better illustration of the problematic and growing income inequality in the US than the Family Dollar-Dollar Tree combination. Let’s start with the backdrop: Essentially, the lower-income Americans that are the target customers of dollar stores have gotten too poor to buy anything other than food 

The Family Dollar/Dollar Tree merger is occurring because the average American is TOO POOR FOR THE DOLLAR STORE and as a result these two companies can no longer stand alone.

But hey the deal will likely earn Family Dollar’s CEO $180 million. I’m sure that’ll trickle down somehow. Right?

“So I think we are in great danger of banks not just being too big to fail, but their leaders being too big to fail, as they take the tremendous subsidies they’ve received over the last few years. We’re in a much more precarious position.”

– Ex-banker details how mega-banks destroyed America.