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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Is the Next Economic Crash Being Signaled to Billionaires & Putin as the Working Class Gets Blindsided?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Debate, The Hartmann Report, Economics, Thom Hartmann, Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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While Putin, the Trump kids, and their fellow billionaires are rubbing their hands in glee, it’s going to be a hell of a year or three for the other 99% rest of us…

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Is the next economic crash being signaled to billionaires as the working class gets blindsided?

1:06.8

Wall Street Journal reports in an article titled Trump tells AIDS to prepare for extended blockade of Iran, that, quote,

1:13.5

President Trump has instructed AIDS to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, U.S. officials said.

1:19.2

In recent meetings, including a Monday discussion in the situation room, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran's economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports. For now,

1:29.1

Trump is comfortable with an indefinite, which he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social, is pushing

1:34.1

Iran toward a state of collapse, end quote. So Putin, who Trump took orders from for a full 90

1:41.0

minutes yesterday, and America's billionaires who religiously read the Wall Street

1:45.5

Journal are officially tipped off to prepare for what may well be a worldwide repeat of the Republican

1:51.1

Great Depression of the 1930s. Or at least a revisit to the Nixon-era crises of the 1970s,

1:58.1

Reagan's Black Monday 22 percent market crash Bush's 2008 Great Recession, and Trump's

2:05.2

2020 massive botched pandemic response economic meltdown. Trump and his people didn't bother to say

2:12.4

one word to average Americans, no press conference or warning, but they sure made certain that

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