REAL PEOPLE, REAL ECONOMY
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 November 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Can Trump keep goosing the economy until he gets re-elected? Thom considers the dilemmas of our current economic moment in the context of the larger history of government economic policies. Can we escape the influence of Big Money and instead operate our government in the interests of the common person? Morris Perl, one of the leaders of the Patriotic Millionaires joins Thom on why he's asking for his taxes to be raised.
And Professor Richard Wolff explains what needs to be done to resolve wealth taxes in the United States. Health in the whole of Europe is provided by the state, yet the US seems incapable (or unwilling?) to respond to the demands of the population for quality a free health service.
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| 0:17.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. Welcome back. |
| 0:18.0 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:19.2 | China and the US have agreed in principle, writes Tom Hancock in the Financial Times today to remove |
| 0:24.8 | some tariffs imposed in the trade dispute between the two countries, Beijing has said. |
| 0:29.6 | Commerce Ministry Spokesperson Gau Feng told reporters in Beijing on Thursday that negotiators from both sides had agreed to quote |
| 0:37.4 | remove some of the additional tariffs in phases. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm telling you Trump is using this to keep goosing the economy, to keep it |
| 0:45.1 | going until November of 2020 so that he can win re-election. And then all bets are off. |
| 0:51.0 | And the question is, can he pull it off? |
| 0:54.0 | And I honestly don't know the answer to that, |
| 0:56.4 | but we're gonna find out. |
| 0:59.7 | Meanwhile, the Trump trade war, this is one of those interesting things about this |
| 1:04.3 | trade war the Trump trade war this might also be another reason why he's willing |
| 1:08.8 | to back off these emergency tariffs is that this from Laura from a lower closs over dilly coz in what in around one in three counties |
| 1:18.1 | in the united states |
| 1:19.5 | unemployment is higher that was a year ago people are worse off than they were a year ago. |
| 1:24.8 | One in three counties. And that includes every single county in the state of Wisconsin. |
| 1:30.4 | Every single county in the state of New Hampshire and the majority of counties in Michigan, |
| 1:35.9 | Minnesota, North Carolina. |
| 1:39.2 | So by undoing his trade war, maybe he'll provide some employment to those folks and he's already |
| 1:45.2 | got his low interest rates you know so I talked about that before and the media is |
| 1:50.4 | pretty much not talking about this the way that I am but I think that this is an |
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