Inflation has gone down or is going down, according to a report released yesterday.

Financial markets were celebrating that a, quote, soft landing, close quote, that avoids a recession

has been all but achieved.

But is that true?

We need a new system.

We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are very excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment

where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class,

and the crimes of big business.

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Please welcome Richard Wolf.

Richard is the co-founder of the organization, Democracy at

Work, the author of many books, the latest being The Sickness is the System when Capitalism

Fells to Save Us from Pandemics or itself. Be sure to check out all of his work at R-D-Wolf.com.

That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F.com. Professor Wolf, welcome back. Thank you very much, Brian.

Glad to be here. We have contrasting assessments here, Richard, and I'm going to ask you about them.

One is from the Wall Street Journal, and the other is from USB Bank, very, very different assessments of what's

actually going on. Here's the headline from the Wall Street Journal. This is, of course,

based on the inflation report yesterday that showed that inflation, while still rising, is rising

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