“Wealth Supremacy” and How to Build a Democratic Economy

FEATURING MARJORIE KELLY - The U.S. economic system is facing increasing scrutiny for the wealth inequality it has generated and continues to worsen. A significant part of the stranglehold that our current form of capitalism has is cultural: the idea that when stock prices are booming and the Dow Jones is high, the economy is healthy and therefore ordinary Americans are thriving. But, applying a clarifying lens to the prevailing economic model reveals that we live under a system of what Marjorie Kelly calls “Wealth Supremacy.”