{"id":1505202,"date":"2024-02-17T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=01bd8b789fbd31d0bf1ef9365690f7d3"},"modified":"2024-02-17T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T17:25:16","slug":"to-democratize-finance-we-must-take-the-banks-away-from-the-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/17\/to-democratize-finance-we-must-take-the-banks-away-from-the-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"To Democratize Finance, We Must Take the Banks Away From the Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our current banking and financial system has transformed politics in favor of the rich, debilitating democratic institutions, destroying the common good and hurting the poor in the process. In this context, the challenge we face is to end plutocracy and restore democracy. It is this challenge that world-renowned progressive economist Gerald Epstein brilliantly elucidates in his pathbreaking book...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/to-democratize-finance-we-must-take-the-banks-away-from-the-bankers\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/to-democratize-finance-we-must-take-the-banks-away-from-the-bankers\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive economist Gerald Epstein explains how we can build a banking system that puts people over profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7968,1077,726,74590,932,463,14833,740],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505205,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505202\/revisions\/1505205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}