13 January 2015
Bing Crosby, "Brother Can You Spare A Dime?"
Robert Reich, "Why Wages Won't Rise"
Clio Chang, "Seven Lessons about Child Poverty"
15 January 2015
"Ain't We Got Fun" (1921)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
"I'm In The Market for You" (1930)
20 January 2015
The Great Gatsby (trailer) (2013)
The Great Gatsby (trailer) (1974)
The Great Gatsby (clip) (1949)
Alan B. Krueger, "The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States" (2012)
Alan B. Krueger, "Land of Hope and Dreams: Rock and Roll, Economics and Rebuilding the Middle Class" (2013)
27 January 2015
Hoover's inaugural address (1929)
FDR's first inaugural address (1933)
Obama's first inaugural address (2009)
Obama's second inaugural address (2013)
29 January 2015
Bill Cox, "NRA Blues"
Louis Armstrong & the Mills Bros, "W.P.A.:
Eduardo Porter, Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
3 February 2015
West Wing, "Missing Letter"
5 February 2015
Joan Blondell and Etta Moten, "Remember My Forgotten Man"
Forgotten Man's Hour Radio Show
10-12 February 2015
B&W photos from the FSA-OWI (1935-1945)
Arthur Rothstein and Gee's Bend
12 February 2015
Billie Holliday, "Strange Fruit"
sampled by Kanye West, "Blood on the Leaves"
1930 lynching in Marion, Indiana
Bill Moyers, "Legacy of Lynching"
New York Times Editorial Board, "Lynching as Racial Terrorism"
17 February 2015
The Bently Boys, "Down on Penny's Farm"
Judy Garland, "Smile" (1936)
King Vidor, Our Daily Bread (1934)
Woody GuthriePete Seeger (with Tao Rodriguez and Bruce Springsteen), "This Land Is Your Land" (2009)
Florence Reese, "Which Side Are You On?" (1931)
Dropkick Murphys, "Which Side Are You On?" (2001)
Tom Morello (The Nightwatchman), "Which Side Are You On?" (2011)
24 February 2015
John Houseman, the story behind The Cradle
"Moll's Song" (Emily Watson, 1999)
"Joe Worker" (1964)
"The Cradle Will Rock" (1964)
Marc Blitzstein, String Quartet "Italian" (1930)
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Lotte Lenya, "Mack the Knife"
Dave van Ronk, "Mack the Knife"
Lotte Lenya, "Seerauber Jenny" (Pirate Jenny) (1931)
Marianne Faithful, "Pirate Jenny" (1998)
3 March 2015
Dwight D. Eisenhower (17 January 1961)
Allen Ginsberg, "America"
Muddy Waters, "Rollin' Stone"
John Lee Hooker, "I Wish You Were Here"
Bob Dylan: "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", "Chimes of Freedom", "Subterranean Homesick Blues", and "Like A Rolling Stone"
Martin Luther King, Jr. (30 April 1967)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Ohio"
17 March 2015
Madonna, "Material Girl" (1984)
Public Enemy, "Fight the Power" (1989)
Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991)
Gordon Gekko (Wall Street, 1987)
Gordon Gekko (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010)
19-24 March 2015
Frank Sinatra, "Fly Me to the Moon"
Pink Floyd, "Money" (1973)
Talking Heads, "America Is Waiting" (1981)
Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place" (1983)
Chartbook of Economic Inequality
Judas Priest, "Stained Class" (1978)
Ramones, "I Wanted Everything" (1978)
The Clash, "Clash City Rockers" (1978)
26 March 2015
Zbigniew Herbert, "Report from a Besieged City"
Cosmopolis, "The Rat as the New Unit of Currency"
Datek Online, "The Wall"
Cosmopolis, "A Protest Against the Future"
James Cagney, "You dirty, yellow-bellied rat!"
2 April 2015
Peter Gabriel, "Big Time"
Inside Job: trailer and clips, the events, the jargon, etc.
Peter Gabriel, Charlie Rose interviews Charles Ferguson
7 April 2015
Bachman Turner Overdrive, "Taking Care of Business"
Ry Cooder, "No Banker Left Behind"
Michael Moore: Capitalism: A Love Story and crime scene tape story
Too Big to Fail: financial crisis explained
Bill Moyers, "Six Films on the Financial Crisis"
9 April 2015
Atlas Shrugged and the Tea Party Revolts
Tyler Cowen, Austrian business cycle theory or, in animation, Austrian business cycle theory explained
14 April 2015
PBS, "Report finds 44 percent of U.S. children live in low-income families"
The Status of Working Families in Indiana
Detroit News, "Demand up, donations down at Detroit-area food banks"
comparison of two depressions (PPT)
Robert S. McElvaine, "If (Economic) History Doesn't Repeat Itself, Does it Rhyme? The 1920s & the 2000s: Convergences & Divergences"
16 April 2015
Los Angeles Times, Occupy Wall Street: Timeline
Helen Kallao, Occupy Chicago (photos)
Chris Giamo, Occupy ME.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "We Are the 99 Percent, 1765 Edition"
Harvard Ec 10 students, "An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw"
Occupy Wall Street, Mic Check at Zuccotti Park (25 September 2011)
Richard D. Wolff, Occupy Wall Street (4 October 2011)
"Eighteen Noteworthy Musical Performances for the Occupy Movement"