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Weekends: Inflation, Labor Upsurge, and Neoliberalism's Discontents w/ Richard Wolff

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Economist Richard Wolff joins Weekends to explain why Congressional partisan battles are like professional wrestling and why global capitalism continues to experience crisis after crisis. Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the (last!) episode, which aired December 17, 2021.


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0:00.0

What's up everyone, you're watching Weekends with Anacasparian and Nando Vila and I hope

0:21.4

you guys enjoyed the show today because it's going to be the final episode of Weekends,

0:28.0

not just for the year, but for forever. Nando and I are moving on to some other projects,

0:35.5

but it doesn't mean it'll be the last that you'll hear from us or see from us. I know that I'm

0:41.3

planning on still working with Kale and producing some content for the YouTube channel, not

0:47.0

necessarily in the form of a live show, but content that you guys can access on demand.

0:52.7

And Nando, I'm excited for you. You have some exciting stuff going on in your career.

0:59.4

Yeah, do you want to share it with the audience?

1:00.7

Well, I can't really share many details yet, but this is a side gage for me. This is not my

1:07.8

main job. I have a day job and it's changing and it's exciting. It's all good news,

1:15.8

but it makes it very difficult to help produce and host this show. It's just a huge demand on my time.

1:27.2

So I'm not like leaving to, you know, in these times or some other left media.

1:33.4

Right, he's going to move on to finance. Yeah, I'm going to be a banker.

1:37.6

Yeah, I took, I took Mayor Pete's job at McKinsey. They offered it to me.

1:47.4

So we're going to have a great show regardless. And I think you guys are going to enjoy the

1:52.2

episode today. We're going to have the one, the only professor Richard Wolfahn for interview

1:57.6

segment. So I'm really looking forward to that. He's been, I just, I love how salty he is,

2:03.5

especially when it comes to debunking some of the myths out there in regard to inflation.

2:08.2

So we'll talk to him about that and other economy-related news. Nando, I'm really happy to see

2:14.3

that your decode today is going to be on the failure of the Biden administration in regard to his

2:20.6

own agenda. You want to give a little preview of that? Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know if happy

2:25.8

is the right word, but it's predictable that given the weakness of the Democratic Party or

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