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    Which Way, L.A.?

    The Age of Outrage in Europe and America

    Multibillion-dollar investor Warren Buffett has made headlines by suggesting that he and other rich people pay too little in taxes. In this Sunday's New York Times, columnist Roger Cohen wrote that "a feeling has grown in Western societies that uncontrollable forces are at work shrinking possibility.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Multibillion-dollar investor Warren Buffett has made headlines by suggesting that he and other rich people pay too little in taxes. In this Sunday's New York Times, columnist Roger Cohen wrote that "a feeling has grown in Western societies that uncontrollable forces are at work shrinking possibility. "History," he said, "has never seen a global power shift as radical as the current one that managed to be peaceful." We hear a lively debate.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Sonya Geis

      Senior Managing Editor

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Julia Flucht

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Roger Cohen

      Columnist for the New York Times; Foreign editor for three years

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      Karsten Voigt

      German Council of Foreign Relations

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      Eric Schoenberg

      Responsible Wealth

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