How many of you out there foresaw that a 700 page book on wealth inequality written by a French economist would become the runaway bestseller of 2014? Why that is about as likely as the most accomplished, non-incumbent, well funded Establishment candidate finding herself in a real dogfight with a “fringe” candidate from Vermont who refuses corporate and SuperPAC campaign contributions. Thomas Piketty, the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century has written a piece assessing the success of the Sanders’ movement and its prospects for ending the Age of Reagan.
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