Bank customers across the country are increasingly being hit by a surprise.

Their bank accounts are being closed without warning, causing chaos in their personal finances.

What's behind this new trend in capitalist banking?

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 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.

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

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if you're not yet, to become a patron today. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization

Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books, the latest being The Sickness is the System when capitalism

fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

Be sure to check out all of his work at RD.Wolf.com.

That's R-D-W-O-L-F dot com.

Professor Wolf, welcome back.

Thank you, Brian.

Glad to be here.

There's a few things we want to talk about today, Richard, and they're all related to the banks.

There's new stories about the banks getting rid of risk or hedging risk or creating new

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