I loved Oliver Stone’s first Wall Street. Bud Fox, the young, ambitious stockbroker is taken under the wing of corporate raider, Gordon Gekko. Gekko, the self-proclaimed prophet of greed, favors custom-made light blue shirts and suspenders. His office features many…
Read MoreA new kind of museum opened last week in NYC. Not like The Met or MOMA, this one was for 3 days only, but no less significant. The Museum of Drug Policy used art as a lens to examine the…
Read MoreEarlier this month the Major League Baseball Association celebrated Jackie Robinson Day. Every player wore Robinson’s jersey number 42 to commemorate Robinson who was the first African-American to play in the league. When Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field on April…
Read MoreThe people who take care of society’s most vulnerable (the disabled, elderly, and children) are in fact the people most vulnerable themselves to labor abuses. According to the National Domestic Workers Alliance, 23% of domestic workers are paid below minimum…
Read More62% of American jobs may be at risk from robots. That was the take-away from President Obama’s February Economic Report to Congress. And once again, it is the most vulnerable among us (those making $20 or less an hour) that…
Read MoreRelease of the Panama Papers and Pfizer’s thwarted tax inversion scheme arrived just in time for tax season. While we gather our W-2’s and organize our itemized deductions, we might ask ourselves why we play by the rules. The rich…
Read MoreIt’s eight years after the economic collapse of 2008, but for many, the “recovery” has been weak. Wall Street’s recovery has not been felt by Main Street and many now subscribe to the idea the economy is rigged against them.…
Read More90% of the more than 2.5 million charged with a crime in this country cannot afford a lawyer, according to Dean Strang, who shared his experience defending Steven Avery, the now famous Wisconsin man at the center of Netflix’s “Making…
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