Author: Chris Temple

Once upon a time in America, there was a thriving middle class; citizens able to enjoy “The American Dream” because they had good, stable jobs that paid a living wage.  One of the great advocates of “A Square Deal” for…

It’s been nearly 15 years since this key Depression-era legislation was repealed by a Republican Congress and Democrat president.  The reasons why the banks were pushing for Glass-Steagall to be deep-sixed became evident with the monstrous mortgage and derivatives boom–and BUST–of…

(NOTE: Chris will be updating the Ithaca HOURS story and adding a LOT to it in his upcoming Special Report entitled “Building an Economic Lifeboat.”) Years ago, Chris wrote of a wonderful new–and successful–experiment to create “an economy within an…