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Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

News, Government, Politics

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.”

I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute.

Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population ratios, despite what the Biden administration says.

“We just lost millions of workers. They just disappeared,” says Tucker. “Savings rates are rock bottom, credit cards super high, people are taking on second and third jobs, and Washington’s calling this ‘job creation’?”

Tucker and I discuss how pandemic mitigation measures made no measurable difference in health outcomes and caused an economic disaster, in which America’s institutional systems have now become a closed world of industrial privilege.

“The settled ideological systems of 2019 and the previous 50 years don’t really serve as very good prisms to understand the present world,” Tucker says.

We also discuss the Federal Reserve, interest rates, the labor market, and the incentives driving the long-term impacts of COVID interventions.

“The slogan ‘Go woke, go broke’ is really coming to life,” says Tucker.

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0:00.0

While we slapped, while we thought the world was just fine,

0:04.0

what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion

0:07.7

of the production structures.

0:09.4

Today, I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker,

0:11.3

the epoch times senior economics columnist

0:14.3

and founder and president of the Brownstone Institute.

0:17.0

The settled ideological systems of 2019 and the previous 50 years

0:22.1

don't really serve as very good prisons to understand the present world.

0:27.9

We discuss the long-term impacts of COVID interventions on the economy,

0:32.0

the incentives and ideologies driving them and what the future holds.

0:35.6

The savings rates are rock bottom credit cards,

0:38.1

super high people are taking on a second and third jobs

0:42.6

and Washington's calling this job creation.

0:45.6

The slogan, go, go, go, broke is really coming to life.

0:49.7

This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Janja Kellek.

0:52.9

Jeffrey Tucker, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders.

0:58.4

It's supposed to be here, Jan. Thank you.

1:00.8

Well, Jeffrey, I want to highlight to folks

1:04.6

that you have a column at the epoch times now five days a week

1:09.5

as our senior economics columnist, which has frankly taught me

1:14.6

incredible amounts in this field, which frankly isn't my specialty.

1:19.8

And you have this incredible ability to simplify

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