How This New Gilded Age Ends

The Gilded Age has nothing on the present when it comes to a huge—and growing—portion of wealth being controlled by a smaller and smaller group of men—and they’re doing their best to keep it that way. Must everything that goes up come down?

Guest: Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at City University of New York’s Graduate Center.

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