The United States has designed the global financial system so that it can use vast financial tools to attack the economies of targeted countries and the people who live in them.

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.

identity. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment,

where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class,

and the crimes of big business. I'm your host, Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you

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if you're not yet, to become a patron today. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization

Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books, including

Understanding Capitalism, which is available at Democracy at Work. Info. Professor Wolf, welcome back.

Thank you very much, Brian. And as usual, I am very glad to be talking with you.

Great, great, great.

Thank you so much.

A big topic, you know, in the past years, as we've been doing this show every week,

you have made the argument that the U.S. empire is an empire in decline.

All empires eventually do go into decline, and you're citing numerous

statistical indices and arguments, many of them very, very persuasive about the U.S. influence

that sort of reigns supreme at one time has been diminished. And yet at the same time, and this is, for the lack of a

better word at the moment, the dialectic here, the contradictory element of this truth, of this

reality, the U.S. has, through dollar hegemony, through the dollar is the world's currency

reserve, and many other sort of controls over

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