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🗓️ 19 October 2022
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With a rising China, how are geopolitics changing the value of money? Professor Richard Wolff shares his thoughts on the gold standard- can it make any difference for a currency to be backed by gold in a modern capitalist economy? Plus - is the GOP deliberately shrinking the middle class?
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0:48.4 | Mom Align with us is a professor Richard Wolf, the economist co-founder of democracy at work.info |
0:54.5 | The author of numerous books, including the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save |
0:59.7 | us from pandemics or itself also available as an ebook and he's the host of economic update with |
1:04.8 | professor Richard Wolf on free speech TV, Prof. Wolf over on Twitter as well. |
1:10.0 | First of all, you wrote this fascinating piece over democracy at work.info titled China versus |
1:15.3 | the US system rising versus system falling new global capitalism lecture. You're talking about how |
1:21.2 | China has embraced a form of capitalism. America has embraced, you know, we've kind of swung |
1:27.7 | back and forth over the last century or so between heavily regulated and heavily deregulated |
1:32.9 | capitalism. You want to give us a brief primer on this? Sure, I'd be glad to. And let me |
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1:52.7 | The world has been a place where empires have come and gone. Everyone that came also went. |
2:00.1 | Everyone that had a rise up had a calm down. It was much more fun for the people involved |
2:06.0 | on the way up than it was on the way down. The most recent one that's in people's mind today |
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