GREETINGS: The show begins in Ottawa to observe with Conrad Black at Toronto the debate about hate speech and punishment.Then to inflation in 1983 when the Fed changed the rulesi. To Beijing, to Kyiv and the Black Sea. To Jerusalem, Jordan, the West Bank,
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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- GREETINGS: The show begins in Ottawa to observe with Conrad Black at Toronto the debate about hate speech and punishment.Then to inflation in 1983 when the Fed changed the rulesi. To Beijing, to Kyiv and the Black Sea. To Jerusalem, Jordan, the West Bank, Harvard College, Ramallah. Then to Odie the lander in the region of the South Pole, to Santiago de Cuba, to Florida, to Caracas, Brasilia, Quito, and Buenos Aires.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Canada conversation with Comrade Black about legislation proposed and debated in Parliament, about hate speech, but in particular about inciting genocide which the law suggests could lead to life imprisonment. |
| 0:20.0 | Then moving on to the public perception of inflation with Vernique de Regis. The public, all of us, understand |
| 0:28.7 | inflation is especially raw at the grocery store. |
| 0:34.1 | Why is it that our perception of inflation |
| 0:37.2 | does not jibe with the scenario presented by Washington? |
| 0:42.0 | Veronique has done research to show that they changed inflation guide in 1980s and again in 1990s. |
| 0:50.0 | What is important now is housing. |
| 0:52.3 | In the 1980s and before, inflation measured mortgages. |
| 0:58.2 | Now they measure rent. Mortgages catch inflation. Rent. |
| 1:03.0 | Mortgages catch inflation. |
| 1:05.0 | The difference between what you paid and what your mortgage is and the present |
| 1:11.0 | inflation number. Rents don't capture it. Is there any recalculated and |
| 1:17.6 | said if we'd use the 83 model inflation would have peaked at 18% in 2022 and would now be at 8, which is what it feels like. |
| 1:28.0 | More to come. |
| 1:30.0 | And then the scholar report about Shijin Ping and the Chinese Communist Party's plan to get |
| 1:35.2 | out of the hole, sometimes known as a recession they're in. |
| 1:39.9 | The Back to the Future version is we're going to manufacture our way out of it. We're going to sell and sell |
| 1:44.0 | and sell high-end products. Everybody's going to buy our cars or chips or our solar panels. |
| 1:53.0 | Chris Regal joins to say, |
| 1:55.0 | China is good in the middle range, middle marketing, middle of manufacturing. |
| 2:00.0 | It's not high end. |
| 2:01.0 | And this time there'll be tariffs. |
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