Robert B. Reich is currently the Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations, including as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written eighteen books, including the bestsellers The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, and The Work of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages. He is co-creator of the 2017 Netflix original documentary Saving Capitalism and of the award-winning 2013 film Inequality for All. He is co-founder of Inequality Media, co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute, and co-founding editor of The American Prospect. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. .
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Professor Reich plays an economist on television; in real life, he is a lawyer. And any law-school graduate ought to know that the First Amendment is a limitation on government, not a limitation. 2 days ago Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of “The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It.” Tags Policy. 2 days ago Robert Reich: Opposition to D.C. Statehood is racist. Robert needs to quit acting so small! Robert Bernard Reich (/ r aɪ ʃ /; born June 24, 1946) is an American economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, as well as serving as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 under Bill Clinton. He was a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. 162K views November 23. Here's How to Save the Economy. 117K views November 23. How Mitch McConnell's Republicans are Destroying America. 1M views November 20. Related Pages See All. 5,692,344 Followers.
In 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel Vision Foundation Prize, by the former Czech president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the ten most successful cabinet secretaries of the century. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
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- Industrial Policy
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- Leadership and Management
- Politics
- Poverty & Inequality
- Leadership and Social Change
- Macroeconomic Policy
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Loophole Lets Money Pour Into CEOs' Wallets
San Francisco Chronicle, August 2, 2013
There's No 'I' in 'We the People'
San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2013
Why Republicans Want to Tax Students and Not Polluters
California Progress Report, July 7, 2013
A Revolutionary Strategy for Reviving the Economy
San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2013
The Truth About Immigration Reform and the Economy
Huffington Post, June 26, 2013
2 Reasons Americans Should Worry
San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 2013
Robert Reich Explains America's Inequality Problem In 150 Seconds (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, June 19, 2013
Inequality is Real, It's Personal, It's Expensive and It Was Created
June 18, 2013
Answer Sheet Blog: A New 'Education Declaration' for Genuine School Reform
Washington Post Online, June 9, 2013
Economic Storms Brewing
San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 2013
Congress Paralyzed by Conservatives
San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2013
Change is Never Easy, But It's Possible
San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2013
Delamaide: Economists Thrash Banks for Their Excesses
USA Today, April 21, 2013
Bi-Partisanship We Don't Need: The President Offers to Cut Social Security and Republicans Agree
Huffington Post, April 8, 2013
Is the Tougher Workplace Slowing Down the Economic Recovery?
Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2013
The Morality Brigade
Baltimore Sun, March 25, 2013
'It's Still a Bear Market for Workers'
San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 2013
Why There's a Bull Market for Stocks and a Bear Market for Workers
Huffington Post, March 3, 2013
What Obama Should Do Now
Huffington Post, March 2, 2013
Professor Robert Reich discusses the Minimum Wage
NPR's Talk of the Nation, February 23, 2013
Immigrants May Be The Best Hope For Desperate Baby Boomers
Business Insider, February 19, 2013
The Minimum Wage and the Meaning of a Decent Society
Baltimore Sun, February 18, 2013
Labor Unions Raise Prosperity for All
San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 2013
America Faces Catastrophic Levels Of Inequality
Business Insider, January 27, 2013
Obama's Debt-Ceiling Strategy Unclear
San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 2013
The Washington Connection
Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2013
Entitlement Cuts Won't Solve Deficit
San Francisco Chronicle, January 9, 2013
Debt Ceiling and Guns: Using Presidential Authority to the Fullest
Huffington Post, January 8, 2013
From Hurricanes to Health Care: What's Government For?
KQED Radio, October 31, 2012
Economic Recovery Hinges on Election
San Francisco Chronicle, October 10, 2012
Analyzing Presidential Candidates' Economic Plans
Wall Street Journal Live, October 1, 2012
Mitt Romney Down But Not Necessarily Out
San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2012
Republicans Alienating Majority of Voters
San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 2012
How Republicans Reinforce Campaign of Lies
San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 2012
Paul Ryan Represents Political Dark Age
San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 2012
The Problem: Big Business Doesn't Care About American Well-Being
Christian Science Monitor, July 17, 2012
Recovery Depends on Middle-Class Spending Power
San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 2012
Reich: Super PACs Must Face Accountability
San Francisco Chronicle, June 15, 2012
Looking Beyond Election Day
New York Times, November 22, 2011
We the People, and the New American Civil War
Huffington Post, November 3, 2011
The Limping Middle Class
New York Times, September 1, 2011
Vicious Cycles: Why Washington Is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse
Huffington Post, July 23, 2011
Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins
Washington Post, January 30, 2009
Media Citations
Health Care Law Raises Pressure on Public Unions
New York Times, August 2, 2013
Webcasts
What’s Next for Democracy: Social Safety Net in America with Robert Reich
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Date: December 4, 2020Duration: 18 minutes
The Coming Wave?
Henry E. Brady, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, Janet Napolitano, President, University of California, Robert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy
Date: October 30, 2018Duration: 53 minutes
Taxes, Trade, Tariffs and Trump with Robert Reich and Stephen Moore—Point/Counterpoint
Henry E. Brady, Stephen Moore, Robert B. Reich
Date: March 20, 2018Duration: 73 minutes
Truth as a Common Good with Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Event: Spring 2017 Board of Advisors Meeting
Date: March 29, 2017Duration: 51 minutes
Into the World of Work
Date: May 15, 2016Duration: 23 minutes
Saving Capitalism with Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Event: 2015 Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy
Date: December 1, 2015Duration: 53 minutes
Economic Inequality and the Future of Progressivism with Bill de Blasio and Robert Reich
Robert Reich, Bill de Blasio
Event: Economic Inequality and the Future of Progressivism
Date: May 14, 2015Duration: 16 minutes
The Great Divide with Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich
Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich
Date: April 29, 2015Duration: 57 minutes
50th Anniversary Free Speech Movement
Bruce Roberts, Robert Reich, John Gage
Date: October 6, 2014Duration: 23 minutes
‘Inequality is bad for everyone’: Robert Reich fights against economic imbalance
Robert Reich, Paul Solman
Date: October 11, 2013Duration: 6 minutes
Trailer for Inequality for All
Date: August 1, 2013Duration: 0 minutes
Political Civility Should Not Be an Oxymoron
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Robert Reich
Event: Cal Day 2012
Date: April 21, 2012Duration: 59 minutes
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Class Warfare in America
Robert Reich
Event: Mario Savio Lecture
Date: November 19, 2011Duration: 18 minutes
2009 Wildavsky Forum Panel Discussion: Changing Inequality: What produces and changes levels of inequality?
Dr. Rebecca M. Blank, Lee Friendman, Mike Hout, Steven Raphael, Robert Reich
Event: 2009 Wildavsky Forum - Dr. Rebecca Blank
Date: March 13, 2009Duration: 117 minutes
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Is the average American voter really thinking about all the ways to get back at voters who voted for President Trump?
If any voters in Pennsylvania are reading this: do you really want to elect these people? https://t.co/EUTuDUItZp
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) October 18, 2020Robert Reich Amazon Twitter
Well, it's what certain influential Democrats want, full blown show-trials and purges, same as the communists pioneered. Seems that equality and redistribution, don't really motivate them in the promises of socialism -- purges, show trials, Gulags and re-education camps are what get them going.
And it makes sense. Socialism has failed everywhere it's ever been tried, every time, every place, every place it's ever been practiced, people are poorer, unfreerer and less advanced than in places with capitalism. They've got a 100% record on failure for that. But where they don't have a record of failure is on a reign of terror, where neighbor spies on neighbor for a secret police, thought crimes are punished, mass imprisonment and re-education camps are a way of life, show trials appear where groveling people stand before people's commissars and profess to love what they hate and hate what they love, and the yin and yang of violence to reinforce lies and lies to cover up violence. There are also party purges to keep everyone in a state of fear.
That's what socialists are good at.
And sure enough, that's what Reich is calling for. Reich, it's important to note, is no ordinary crazy leftist. He's President Clinton's former Secretary of Labor and a fixture in Democrat party politics. He's the establishment. He's the mainstream. And Joe Biden, who is being controlled by so many puppetmasters of this ilk. will do as he's told by the likes of Reich. So much for Biden's promise to be the president of 'all the people.' This is what he means by 'all the people.'
This ought to be a campaign issue. Democrats are plotting the worst for their GOP rivals in a bid to control all ideas, all thoughts, every straying question. As Sen. Lindsey Graham once said: 'Boy y'all want power, god I hope you never get it.'
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