The Renegade Economist in conversation with Ann Pettifor.

What does the close relationship between Prime Minister, David Cameron, and mathematician and philosopher Nasim Taleb mean for UK economic policy? And if Mr Taleb's theories on Black Swans, risk and debt are being absorbed by the PM, what are the implications be for savers and investors?

Despite all the political rhetoric, neither Britain nor America has ever allowed the flourishing of genuinely free markets as propounded by Adam Smith. 

Occupy is a non-violent 2nd American Revolution. Revolution is from the Latin, revolutio, a "turn around" of political power. Occupy is turning around the 1%'s political power from criminal wars and rigged-casino economics to create policies for 100% of humanity

Ross Ashcroft from the Renegade Economist met Ben Dyson and Andrew Jackson from Positive Money. We spoke to them on their proposals to reform the monetary system.

With right wing jingoism, heroic acts and a whiff of British nostalgia who needs strategy? 

I dreamed about a movement like Occupy Wall St. starting in America when I first became aware of the youth uprising in Egypt. I knew it was only a matter of time before it eventually landed here in America.

Was the Cold War a battle between capitalism and socialism?

Are the Move Your Money protests enough to make our banking system change? I don't think so - I think we need to be changing our money not where our money sits.