Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/14/18 - Economist and author Dr Richard Wolff diagnoses the implications of Brexit and France's yellow vest movement while back here in America the illness of inequality awaits some progressive medicine. Thom and callers have a fascinating discussion.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Professor Richard Wolff analyzes the French yellow vest protests and points out that resentment over financial insecurity is unfairly placed on immigrants. Thom explains the triple threat of the looming financial crisis, the political crisis from criminals in the White House, and the climate crisis which may devastate all. Thom reflects on the news of the day including the economic revelation of the dollar store supersurgence. Thom has an earnest conversation with callers about the signs and symptoms of the growing economic equality in America and what we might do about it. Book Club - The Next American City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros. Talk Media News - Luke Vargas
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you, and on the line with us, our old |
| 0:24.8 | buddy Professor Richard Wolf, he is the economist and co-founder of Democracy at |
| 0:29.4 | work, the author most recently of Capitalism's Crisis, |
| 0:32.4 | Deepens Ess essays on the global |
| 0:34.0 | economic meltdown his website democracy at work dot info also |
| 0:38.4 | rd wolf with two f's dot com you can tweet him a proff wolf as in Professor Wolf with two F's or at Democracy at |
| 0:45.8 | W RK. Professor Wolf welcome back to the program. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you Tom, glad to be here. |
| 0:50.3 | It's great having you with us. Brexit is at the top of the headlines right now and I wanted to get your thoughts on what's going on there. |
| 0:57.0 | Where it came from, where it's going, is the EU a neoliberal experiment or not and also I'm hearing in fact I heard it yesterday |
| 1:06.7 | on I believe it was France 24 that a lot of the people who are participating in the |
| 1:11.5 | Yellow Vest movement are saying time to |
| 1:13.8 | withdraw from the EU that sentiment is growing across France and I'm |
| 1:19.2 | wondering your thoughts on that whole constellation of stuff? Well, I think it's a remarkable development. |
| 1:25.0 | I think the yellow jackets in France represent, |
| 1:30.0 | I'll go out on a limb, a historic emergence of the mass of people back into active political engagement. |
| 1:38.6 | It's absolutely extraordinary I think for anybody who takes democracy seriously but take a step back |
| 1:46.4 | what all of this is what you point to in the polls in France the whole Brexit story |
| 1:51.8 | is a kind of delayed reaction of millions, tens of millions, |
| 1:57.3 | hundreds of millions of Europeans to the crash of 2008. I'll overstate it but I'll say roughly that you might think |
| 2:06.3 | of what happened in Europe afterwards as having something like the famous deer |
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