Zephyr Teachout's blog

On Saturday, 60+ demonstrations will be held around the country, demanding structural change in the banking sector. The group organizing the demonstrations, which I'm involved in, a New Way Forward, started less than a month ago, but is already approaching 10,000 members. A New Way Forward embodies the logic of the most thoughtful economic thinkers in the country, translated into clear, direct language and action.

We/they support a Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize platform, pointing to Krugman on the need for temporary nationalization, Simon Johnson on the need for removing current leadership in the banking sector, and Mike Lux on the importance of creating a new, decentralized private market, with new banks run by new people. Any bank that's "too big to fail" means that it's too big to exist in a free market.

Bob Dole is the headliner at the "Take Back Our State" Rally today in Raleigh. He's an ironic choice: since 1996, he has taken the enormous political power given him by millions of voters, and sold it for cash from oppressive foreign leaders and oligopic foreign business interests.

If any bloggers can make the event, I have some questions for Dole about who who works for, what he is paid for, and whether or not he ever talks to his wife about his work.