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and outtakes. Today we bring you a compound episode of sorts. First I play part of an interview I

did with the great Richard Wolf. You can hear the full interview with Richard on Patreon. And then I

bring you an interview that I did with Matt Brunik. It's from a couple of weeks ago but the great

thing about it is that basically nothing has changed. Joe Manchin is still terrible. The Biden

administration is still way behind on his COVID response so it's just as relevant as ever and

it's very useful. So without any further ado, Richard Wolf. So excited about today's episode. We

are bringing on a guest who I've been wanting to have on for such a long time and I know people are

really excited about having him on for good reason. He's an excellent speaker, excellent thinker

and he's the host of economic update. He's the professor. He's professor of economics

emeritus at UMass Amherst. He's a visiting professor at the new school. He's the founder of

democracy at work and the author of several books including democracy at work, understanding

Marxism and capitalism hits the fan, the global economic meltdown and what to do about it. He's been

called America's most prominent Marxist economist by the New York Times. So without any further ado,

bringing on to the stage, the virtual stage, professor Richard Wolf. Hello.

Hi, Katie. Thanks so much for joining us. My pleasure. I'm really glad to be here.

Welcome to the show. You are so busy. So we really especially appreciate your stopping by. To

start off, I want to ask you about something that we hear about a lot, which is inflation. It's in

the media a lot. It's presented often by the media as a reason for why we can't have nice things

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