The economic winds are howling... the result of three decades of neoliberalism in the United States and Europe, what we used to call Reaganism and Thatcherism, damage and shake the world financial system.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Thom comments on the police crack down of pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong. Also with the raid of Jeffrey Epstein's island, Bill Barr will now have possession of all the compromising material left behind by the recently deceased sex offender. Might he be following the model of J. Edgar Hoover? - In 2008, we saw the result of three decades of neoliberalism in the United States and Europe, what we used to call Reaganism and Thatcherism, damage and shake the world financial system. Rather than resolving the problem by repudiating neoliberalism, including its emphasis on more money for rich people and less money for workers, big tax breaks for the wealthy, the deregulation of corporations from pollution to banking, and so-called “free trade,“ the central banks of the world have been desperately trying to hold things together with bubblegum and bailing wire – also known as low interest rates. - Caller Jennifer speaks with Thom about the economy of the Confederate mentality stemming from the Civil War. - Talk Media News correspondent Doug Christian reports on the recent activity of the Dow and Russia's moves towards nuclear powered missiles.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, things are heating up in China right now. |
| 0:20.0 | I have an extended rant about the economy to discuss with you and at the same time |
| 0:24.7 | that Donald Trump is saying, whoa whoa the stock market's tanking I guess we'll |
| 0:30.6 | put off the trade war until December. |
| 0:33.0 | And so suddenly the market goes right back up again, right? |
| 0:36.0 | At the same time that's happening, |
| 0:38.0 | the people of China, or at least the people of Hong Kong, |
| 0:41.0 | are saying, you know, we kind of like this democracy thing. |
| 0:44.8 | We'd like to hang on to at least some pieces of it. |
| 0:48.8 | And the Chinese government is saying, no. |
| 0:52.3 | Didn't we have this conversation back, you know, around the time of Tiananmen Square? |
| 0:56.0 | What was that, 91 as I recall? |
| 0:58.0 | They're about, anyway. |
| 0:59.0 | Didn't we already have this conversation? |
| 1:01.0 | We're not going to have it again. |
| 1:02.0 | This is an autocratic |
| 1:04.5 | regime that does not believe in democracy. We do believe in capitalism. You know |
| 1:08.8 | capitalism is good stuff but capitalism doesn't require democracy. |
| 1:14.2 | So that's going on right now. |
| 1:16.8 | The riot police in Hong Kong are just going full bore against the democracy pro-democracy protesters in the |
| 1:25.6 | Hong Kong airport and they're starting to drag people out and arrest them and you |
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