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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 18 April 2014 [View all]DemReadingDU
(16,000 posts)38. Video: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
This is appx 50 minutes lecture that everyone should take the time to watch. Her lecture is over the time-frame 1970-2005:
families became a 2-income household, families made more money, saved less, yet had more debt. She explains where families spent all that money.
1/31/08 The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America's credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [6/2007] [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 12620]
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