Hello and welcome to background briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.org, I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and

issues in the news.

We'll begin with Trump's escalating war against the Fed and its chairman, Jerome Powell,

and look into how Trump wants to follow the disastrous path of dictators he admires, Hungary's

Orban and Turkey's Erdogan, who took political control of their central banks, causing rampant

inflation and soaring interest rates. Joining us is Robert Hockett, the Edward Cornell Professor

of Law and Finance, and a professor of public policy at Cornell University, who has had

first-hand experience working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank

of New York and continues

to consult for a number of U.S. federal, state, and local legislators and regulators.

He drafted Representative Alexander Ocasia Cortez's Green New Deal, resolution for the House

of Representatives, and officially advises her on economic policy. His latest books are money from nothing or why

we should stop worrying about debt and learn to love the Federal Reserve, financing the Green

New Deal, a plan of action and renewal, the Citizens Ledger, digitizing our money, democratizing our

finance, and most recently spread the Fed Fed distributed central banking for productive monetary policy.

Then we'll assess the consequences of the Supreme Court decision to allow the Trump administration

to resume dismantling the United States Department of Education. Joining us is David Halperin,

a co-founder and editor of Republic Report.

He was previously a senior policy advisor for Howard Dean's presidential campaign,

founding executive director of the American Constitutional Society,

White House speechwriter and special assistant for national security affairs

to President Clinton and counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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