The Federal Reserve's relentless campaign to raise interest rates is having profound consequences

not just in the United States, but around the world.

As rates rise in the United States, the value of other currencies is plummeting,

intensifying inflation and a whole host of other economic and social issues.

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 for a regular weekly segment,

where we discuss the biggest stories relating to the economy, the state of the working class,

and the crimes of big business.

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Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many

books, the latest being The Sickness is the System.

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Well, Professor Wolf, we have talked on this show a lot in the past about the Federal Reserve

strategy to raise interest rates to essentially intentionally induce a recession,

to intentionally cause an economic crisis to rebalance the economy in favor of big business in favor of capital

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