Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children.

I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.

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I am very happy and pleased and indeed honored that my guest today, and we're going

to run this in the full half-hour program without interruption, is someone who you all know, or at least most of you do, and who has

been on our show more than a few times over the years.

I'm talking about Chris Hedges.

You all know who he is, so I'm going to be very brief with my introduction.

He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years

for the New York Times.

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