Can Moving Your Money Make a Difference?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy with a conversation about the "Move Your Money" movement. It's calling on people to take their deposits out of the big banks and put them in smaller banks that work at the community level. How much money would have to move to significantly bolster the small banks?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How many people have moved their money so far and are you one of them? It's Your Call, with me Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Stacy Mitchell is a researcher with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Rick Hofstetter, president and chief executive officer of The Lighthouse Bank

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Your Call 051809 Can local currencies transform our economy?

Can local currencies transform our economy from the bottom up? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about the growing interest in currency production in communities around the country. Thousands of them were used during the Great Depression. How do local currencies work today? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How do you start one where you live? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Susan Witt, Executive Director, E. F. Schumacher Society and Co-founder of BerkShares.

Paul Glover, founder of the Ithaca Hours program

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Your Call 093008 Global capitalism and its discontents

What is capitalism? And how is the current crisis changing the way you understand the basic structure of our economy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about economic crisis in the US and its long-term effect on capitalist economies. The current financial meltdown has sparked a debate on whether capitalism is the ideal methodology for wealth creation. What do you think? Is this the end of global capitalism, as we know it? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Robert Brenner is the director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, and the author of The Boom and the Bubble.

J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley

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Your Call 042408 The Beginning of the End

Why is the American Dollar doing as badly as it is? On the next Your Call we speak with Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. Phillips has been chronicling the effects of imperial America and political religiosity since the beginning of the Bush Administration. As the sun sets on the Bush years, Phillips sifts through the wreckage of our economic system and a legacy built on oil wars, easy credit and financial volatility. Are we losing the American way of life? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Kevin Phillips in San Francisco
Former aid to President Nixon and author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism and 13 previous books including American Theocracy and the critically acclaimed The Emerging Republican Majority

Kevin Phillips is speaking tonight at the World Affairs Council in SF at 6:00 pm

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