The New Global Elite

It was Scott Fitzgerald who said that "the rich are different than you and me." Today that difference goes a lot deeper. The very rich are very different! And that difference, that gap, is coming to define the future of America and of democracy. Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies got it exactly right when he said "you can have large amounts of money in the hands of the very few, or you can have democracy. You can’t have both." Thompson Reuters digital editor Chrystia Freeland looks at this growing gap in Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else My conversation with Chrystia Freeland: <a href="http://s34.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s34jeffs2009" mce_href="http://s34.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s34jeffs2009" target="_top"> <img src="http://s34.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s34jeffs2009" mce_src="http://s34.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s34jeffs2009" alt="Site Meter" border="0"/></a>