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In this episode of Law According To A King, we talk to Devin Fergus, a professor of history and Black studies at the University of Missouri, and the author of books including 'Land Of The Fee', about Black History Month 2021, how politics has affected the civil rights movement, and his hopes for the future of America. This episode was recorded in May 2021. Check out the blog at lawaccordingtoaking.blogspot.com to learn more about topics like this, with everything from constitutional law and human rights to tort reform and land law, with our new Law According To Kings series featuring blog posts from young people around the UK. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn at @lawaccordingtoaking, Twitter at @lawaccording, or email us on lawaccordingtoaking@gmail.com with your questions, comments, and ideas.Music: https://www.purple-planet.com “Phoenix Rising”Intro featuring: Whitney Houston, Black Lives Matter protesters, Nelson Mandela, Shirley Chisholm, Dianne Abbott, Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, Yolanda Renee King, Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther, Kamala Harris, Lil Nas X, Munroe Bergdorf, George Floyd protestors, and Martin Luther King Jr

Has the "American Dream" died? If the "dream" is one of a confident expectation of increasing affluence across generations, then perhaps it has. While politicians in both parties talk about a crisis of the "middle class", young people in America now find it harder to get on the property ladder, to go to College, and even to make ends meet week by week, without falling into a debt trap. Adam talks to Devin Fergus, author of "Land of the Fee," and  Jacob Hacker, co-author of  Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. 

John & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with a guest. Devin Fergus about his new book Land Of The Fee Learn more about our radio program, podcast & blog at www.JohnAndHeidiShow.com

Economists and historians alike have long lamented the decline of the middle class. Everyone seems to have their theories as to why it's happening, but some theories tend to be pretty self-explanatory. Like the fact that getting a four year degree is considered something you must do, but college has become exponentially more expensive over the years. It doesn't help that the internet mob that is cancel culture seems to almost exclusively target people with neither the money nor power to defend themselves. Probably a coincidence. LAND OF THE FEE: Hidden Costs and The Decline of The American Middle ClassBook Link- amzn.to/2Pgg5BZSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Galvin - Serial Entrepreneur CEOMMS Analytics of My Medical Shopper and Devin Fergus author of LAND OF THE FEE: Hidden Costs and The Decline of The American Middle Class

Mark Galvin - Serial Entrepreneur CEOMMS Analytics of My Medical Shopper and Devin Fergus author of LAND OF THE FEE: Hidden Costs and The Decline of The American Middle Class

Guests: David Rivkin, Partner at Baker Hostetler LLP, On to discuss Impeachment. Devin Fergus, Professor at University of Missouri, On to discuss his book "The Land of the Fee." And ... Your thoughts on the impeachment trial.

Claudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks here with Devin Fergus (@devin_fergus), the Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies, at the University of Missouri, about his new book, '"Land of the Fee: The Decline of the Middle Class and the Making of the New World Financial Order". "Consumer financial fees have helped to choke off dreams of the middle class and middle class aspirants alike," argues Fergus (History and Black Studies/Univ. of Missouri; Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980, 2009, etc.). In particular, Fergus investigates several common financial transactions that he contends involve hidden or excessive fees so egregious that they are damaging the economic well-being of Americans, including subprime mortgages, student loans, and payday lending. The damage these forms of borrowing have done to American households during and after the Great Recession is already well-known. Fergus traces in detail the discouraging story of congressional inaction by both political parties that has permitted lenders to sidestep usury laws as they burden unsophisticated borrowers with excessive interest and charges like origination fees and prepayment penalties. 

Dedricklekt talk threepeats and MMA unionization, while Devin Fergus is back for part 2 of the series about his first book Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980. (www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/…lism_black_power) He's also the author of Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and Decline of the American Middle Class(bit.ly/2SH6tjS).B/W Liberal Slavery by MC Manmeet Kaurhttps://soundcloud.com/manmeetkaur/liberal-slavery @manmeet_kaur1and Preach to the Choir by Dyalekt (yeah that's me) open.spotify.com/album/07hNcJHB6p35i4lviMjZiwhistory.missouri.edu/people/fergus @Devin_FergusProsperityNow.org @prosperitynow @dedrickmDyalekt.com @dyalektraps

Devin Fergus is back for a two part series about his first book Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980. (http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/liberalism_black_power) He's also the author of Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and Decline of the American Middle Class(bit.ly/2SH6tjS).B/W Break them Shackles by Lando ChillLandoBeenChill.com @lando_chilland Preach to the Choir by Dyalekt (yeah that's me) open.spotify.com/album/07hNcJHB6p35i4lviMjZiwhistory.missouri.edu/people/fergus @Devin_FergusProsperityNow.org @prosperitynow @dedrickmDyalekt.com @dyalektraps

Check out our new video series Hindsight: https://bit.ly/2On5YbiD double chat with Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies at the University of Missouri.He's the author of Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and Decline of the American Middle Class(https://bit.ly/2SH6tjS). B/W Preach to the Choir by Dyalekt (yeah that's me)https://open.spotify.com/album/07hNcJHB6p35i4lviMjZiwhttps://history.missouri.edu/people/fergus @Devin_FergusProsperityNow.org @prosperitynow @dedrickmDyalekt.com @dyalektraps

In a recent op-ed entitled "Theory 101: Class Struggle in the Age of US Imperial Decline," Danny Haiphong argues, "US imperialism has plundered the planet on behalf of finance capital and caused the death and immiseration of hundreds of millions in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Capitalism creates two classes: the bourgeoisie that owns the means of production and profits from the exploitation of the proletariat. The proletariat, the second class, is dispossessed of the means of production and must sell its labor to the bourgeoisie. US imperialism is a stage of capitalism where monopoly and finance capital have replaced the industrial ruling classes as the motive force of development in the United States and the West." We'll examine whether this deep-seated nationalism has created harmful effects and illusions.The issue of immigration and children being separated from their families and herded into lackluster, poorly kept detention centers has dominated the political main stage during this current administration. But, in a closer examination, there are more questions to be asked that start with the Democratic Party. Carol Dansereau takes a closer dive in her recent op-ed, "Whose Moral Stain? Hold Democrats Accountable on Immigration Too." She points out, "Of course, we need to hold Donald Trump and his party accountable for the deep moral stain of his awful immigration policies. But it doesn't follow that we must, therefore, rally around the Democrats and work for a 'blue wave' in the next election. What Barack Obama and other Democrats did to immigrants is so reprehensible that ignoring it or acting like it wasn't important is not an option. Democrats must also be held accountable for their morally repugnant actions." We'll examine the policies under presidents of both parties and uncover who's to blame. According to professor Devin Fergus, "The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes, attend college, and make ends meet often leave them in a sea of debt." Who is behind these fees, and what are the primary causes of increasing wealth inequality in America? We'll examine his new book, Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class, and explore the student debt bubble, shadow bankers and how fees continue to drain bank accounts and add to the destruction of families. GUESTS: Danny Haiphong - Activist, journalist and co-author of the newly released book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News- From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.Carol Dansereau - Long-time environmental attorney, organizer, and author of What It Will Take: Rejecting Dead-ends and False Friends in the Fight for the Earth.Devin Fergus - Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies and public affairs professor at the University of Missouri.

Over the past few decades, financial companies have begun charging more and more hidden fees. Devin Fergus explains why Americans pay so many fees and how these fees function to redistribute wealth from ordinary Americans to the wealthy - and how this strategy has especially impacted black Americans.

Americans are paying more than ever in fees which are tacked on to the price of everything from utility bills to concert tickets. These fees are quietly draining the wallets of middle-class Americans author Devin Fergus argues. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America.

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that people make. As Devin Fergus, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, shows in Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, 2018), these perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements between vendors and consumers – agreements that few people fully read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the development within the larger context of escalating income inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm. The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth inequality in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices