Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?

You'll learn more from this forty-five-minute presentation than from a year of listening to NPR, reading the NYT, or frankly taking a college economics course.

Nothing amazing about it other than the fact that he both knows the basic macro truth of the history and the current situation, and comes out and says it. 

It's really not that hard, especially for mere citizens (theoretically, at least; if we're anything more than consumers) like us.