It certainly sounds as if he isn't just calling for a New, New Deal, but a total reworking of monetary, fiscal, and economic policy.
For any that haven't seen this it is a must watch and read.
http://www.truth-out.org/...
I am very impressed that Bernie Sanders sees this, and is talking about it. To defend the status quo, is to defend billions of people suffering needlessly, the 1% have enriched and engorged themselves at the expense of the poor for far too long.
Over 70 years ago, the major economic leaders of 44 countries gathered at a hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to establish international economic and financial rules. As a result of that conference, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were established. I think it is clear to anyone who has taken a look at this situation that the rules regarding our international financial system today are rigged in favor of the wealthy and the powerful at the expense of everyone else.
Today, 85 of the wealthiest people in this world own more wealth than the bottom half of the world's population, over 3 billion people. By next year, Oxfam has estimated that the top 1 percent of the world's population will own more wealth than the bottom 99 percent of the world's population.
In my view, we have got to begin - and I hope this forum today is a start in that process - a serious discussion about how we change our international financial rules to expand - expand economic opportunity and reduce income and wealth inequality, not only in Greece and in Puerto Rico, but throughout the world. The global economy is simply unsustainable when so few have so much and so many have so little.