On the web site for years. Some people believe darrow was the inspiration for some of the monopoly characters. The only problem is that story isnt exactly true. The actual game originated with a the woman. This woman elizabeth mcghee. So who was she . Prior to inventing her game she had a patent for a typewriter gadget. She was an outspoken feminist. She had a lot of views. Her father was a gentleman names names names james mcghee who wasnt just an influential newspaper owner that travel with Abraham Lincoln during the lincolndouglass debate and was around for the founding of the Republican Party and was impactful in that. She had also appeared on stage. She wrote short stories and wrote a book of poetry which you can see the plate there for that and she was very impacted by this man henry george. In this room im sure a lot of people know that henry george and in the very short version i am not a henry george scholar is that he was a proponent of single taxpayer amd of this idea you ta
Greenhouses, mr. Monopoly. Most people say Parker Brothers which is now owned by hasbro. And for years the story was this gentleman at the height of the Great Depression and one of americas darkest hours, he goes hours, he goes into his basement and innovates and makes this game and puts Atlantic City properties on it as an almost a vacations during better times. Here is the original patent from 1935. 1935. You can see it looks a lot like monopoly today, the tokens, the board, the property. This version has been on the website for years. Some people believe there was the inspiration for some of the early mr. Monopoly characters. The only problem is that stories are true. The actual game originated with a woman this woman elizabeth mcgee. Prior to inventing prior to inventing her game she had a patent for a typewriter gadget. She was an outspoken feminist. Feminist. She had a lot of views on this. Her father was a gentleman named james mcgee who was not just an influential newspaper own
Phonybaloney organizations designed to look and feel like theyre real. Messages honed by Public Relations experts to sound like theyre truthful. Payroll scientists whom polluters can trot out when they need them. The whole thing is big and complicated enough that when you see its parts, you could be fooled into thinking i. T. Not t all connected. But it is just like the mythological hydra many heads, same beast. And this denial beast pollutes our democracy just as surely as its sponsors pollute our atmosphere and oceans. Some editorial pages spread the polluter party line so consistently that it appears theyve gone over and actually joined the apparatus. The climate denial network controls the political arm of the multinational corporations, the socalled u. S. Chamber of commerce. Polluterfunded super pacs target elected officials who dont fall in line. Interestingly, often republicans in an effort to purify the party in a coalfired crucible. The whole deniers castle can look pretty da
To save money now, it might have seemed like 23491930s in the 1930s we were saving a lot of money on defense. It ended up costing the world a lot more. This is actually a moment where congress by itself cannot do the job. You really need president ial leadership to explain and justify to the country whats at stake. And i have to say theres not really i think franklin roosevelt, that is his finest moment is that he really did work on persuading the American People that they had to bear a burden to make sure the world came out a certain way. And i think thats the responsibility of the current president. I worry that theres a lot of war fatigue, but we are actually going to regret giving into it. Just final, final footnote, actually not so much in this current, i mean, the old today, but there was a similar one that came out in pew a couple months ago. I have a colleague here whos spending some time actually going through the pew data, and there is that headline which is, you know, wed ra
Cpac. I want to make a couple of announcements seized silence yourself of this. Your cellphone sam personal recordings are forbidden and there will be a book signing crowd members of the panel right after this session for our i have to tell you that if you buy the book you buy it upstairs in the lobby bin the siding is across the street across the street. Once again welcome. We are privileged to have three authors to of taken very different approaches to record and analyze the financial crisis began in 2008 and the many effects political influence lobbying and misdirection to avoid the of regulation and oversight to avert the financial crisis of a few years ago in and to keep it from happening again in the future. On my left end to my left. [laughter] and just this week . Nomi prins her book is all the president s bankers. A former wall street executive that is in for the New York Times and fortune and the nation and that is of Broad Spectrum of publications in the united states. Her b