FOLLOW THE MONEY!
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
When even the Financial Times recognizes that Reaganism and neoliberalism has been shown to be a failure, how will we dig ourselves out of this economic crisis? Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom with his analysis. Can we trust the Federal Reserve and the rest of the government to keep the economy going- for all of us? And why did Trump fire the Inspector General?
As Biden proposes to drop the Medicare eligibility age to 60 is he moving in a more Progressive direction? Thom asks if we should repeal the Bankruptcy Act of 2002 that made it impossible to discharge student debt.
How many thousands of dead Americans is a fair price to pay to get partial herd immunity and put the economy back in gear? Who would benefit, and could it be that this is Trump's unspoken policy? And Thom's listeners reflect back what they're seeing happen to the economy from where they sit.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the extraordinary this is the |
| 0:13.0 | Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:18.0 | This is how extraordinary this is. |
| 0:20.0 | The editorial board of the Financial Times, I mean you look up conservative newspaper, ethical |
| 0:28.0 | conservative newspaper in the dictionary and there's a picture of the |
| 0:31.0 | Financial Times. The Financial Times has always been, |
| 0:33.8 | oh, lower taxes, less regulation, |
| 0:36.0 | now we need, you know. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, this is the editorial board of the financial times. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the official voice of the world's most respected |
| 0:49.2 | independent financial newspaper. |
| 0:52.1 | The Wall Street Journal, of course, has become a joke since Rupert Murdoch bought it. |
| 0:55.8 | But the Financial Times is still respected around the world. |
| 0:59.2 | Here's what they have to say. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm just going to read you a couple sentences from this was April 3rd. |
| 1:03.5 | If there's a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, |
| 1:06.4 | it's that it has injected a sense of togetherness |
| 1:10.1 | into polarized societies. |
| 1:13.0 | But beyond defeating the disease, the great test all countries will soon face |
| 1:18.0 | is whether current feelings of common purpose will shape society after the crisis. |
| 1:25.0 | And then they point out, you know, we learned this during the Great Depression in World War |
| 1:28.1 | 2. |
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