Economic Update: Is The US Facing Another Civil War?
[S12 E23] Is The US Facing Another Civil War?
In this week's show, Prof Wolff discusses the stale old debate (competition vs monopoly) and which to blame for inflation; unionization drives across US campuses, and Eastern Kentucky University in particular; how US stores manage inflation; and Elon Musk's peculiar economic "morals." In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Thom Hartmann on divided US politics.
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About our Guest: Thom Hartmann is a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of over 30 books in print and the #1 progressive talk show host in America for more than a decade. He is consistently in the top 10 of the Talkers Magazine Heavy Hundred ranking of the 100 most influential talk hosts in America (#8 this year.) Thom has co-written and been featured in 6 documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil, is an international bestseller and used as a textbook in many schools and colleges. A former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, Thom and his wife Louise live in Portland, Oregon with a small menagerie of cats, dogs, ducks & geese.
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SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS:
1. Competition vs monopoly: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-4a469e3f-d10f-451c-9935-ff079e1ae08b.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2
2. Texas shooting: https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp3id4ccTfw&ab_channel=BleacherReport
3. Unionization drives across US campuses: https://www.wymt.com/2022/05/04/eku-faculty-staff-are-unionizing-school-responds/
https://www.richmondregister.com/news/eku-faculty-and-staff-unionize/article_23c335f7-918b-5305-a445-de0131d21b00.html
https://truthout.org/articles/graduate-student-workers-across-the-country-are-helping-each-other-unionize/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
4. Inflation: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/business/macys-nordstrom-department-stores/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/business/rotisserie-chicken-food-grocery-stores/index.html
5. Elon Musk: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/business/davos-taxes/index.html
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