the author is jon jeter, who is our guest. next phone call comes from our independent line from florida. caller: how are you doing? thank you for coming in to talk about this subject. do you think the reason the more is -- the reason the world is going more global because it is harder to track where the money is flowing? is it one of the reasons america has not focused on the borders in america? is that a new form of imperialism? guest: let me answer the second part first. i do believe is a new form of imperialism, this system of -- if you look at who was served by colonialism in terms of the wealthy. that continues today. if you look at who was hurt, people of color, women. this has been reinforced by globalization. it is a rebury ending of colonialism. -- it is a reid branding of colonialism. in terms of the free flow of immigrants? i didn't understand the first part of your question. a lot of what we have done with the bergeborder, a lot of these problems were post-nafta. a lot of people have lost their phonfarms and factor

ars second author, jon jeter. i hope i pronounced that right, flat broke and the free-market, is a remarkable writer, a jourlist with "the washingto post" and though he comes with all these establishment credentials, i think this is really a bombshell of a book, and i urge peop to rd it. it is about how globalization has stripped working people of the control over their lives, and takes us on a journey from the salmon factoryn chile to oroc obama's chicago andt is a remarkably corrade is book to come out of this time, which even has a very good word to say about hugo chavez, a some criticisms o some of our national leaders. i strongly recommend it. what we are going to doere today is have each author make a ten-minute presentation, and our hope is that we can open this up to questions and a dialogue, and that you will all be roused enough by what these people have to s that i will have a tough job as a moderator moderating it down. so, let's begin with kim bobo who has focused on a specific and really shocking pro

this is jon jeter, flat broke and the free-market. >> thank you. [applause] first of all let me say what a tough act you are to folw. i am going to pick that up as soon as i leave here and let me say one other thingoo which is i am no lonr with "t washington post." i left four years ago, but that ms. sordid just talking little bit about what this book is about. my book is essentially talking about what has happened in the last 25 to 30 years all over the world from chicago to soweto to buenos aires to brazil and so the things that kim talks about, the wage theft, these are the kinds of things we see everywhere and we see this rising inequality everywhere in south africa, you are obviously. wages are being reduced and prophets are growing. we see countries spending less and less on education. actually about a quarter less th most-- mose countries spe a quarter less than they did 25 years ago on education. on the microlel what that means is we have things like pettloan stores on the sell side of chicago. there oliver johannesburg, south africa. weep