We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

An Idiot’s Guide to Quantitative Easing (Warning: Likely to Make You Laugh and Cry in Equal Measure)

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As Europe readies itself for its first ever dose of quantitative easing, here’s probably the most honest and certainly funniest explanation you’ll ever find of the QE phenomenon, courtesy of the ever-irreverent Australian comic duo Clarke & Dawe.

 
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