Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs.

Magazine, today Grace Blakely returns to the program. Her bio on her new book,

Vulture Capitalism, Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom,

describes her, I think, accurately as one of

the fiercest anti-capitalist advocates of her generation. I like fierce. Not just smart, but fierce.

I would really like for you to introduce me wherever I go. I'm a hype man. You just, you just said,

I want that recorded. I want that plane before I go out anywhere.'m a hype man. You just said, I want that recorded.

I want that played before I go out anywhere.

Just to like hype me up.

Get me in the mood.

This is what I do.

I'm the hype man for the guests, you know,

because I got to convince people that you want to listen to the guest.

So I want to talk.

Well, it worked.

I'm hyped.

I'm so hyped. I describe you to people, Grace Blakely, as scary smart.

And because you know everything about the global economy.

You've read everything.

This new book, Vulture Capitalism, contains mountains of research.

It explains the way the entire global economy works.

And it also provides a compelling alternate vision

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