The U.S. economy may be heading for a major crisis, the next one, with millions out of work and the cost of goods going up.

Many workers won't notice it until it hits them, but the indicators are everywhere.

We need a new system. We need a a new society we need to demand that

which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago but is not only

realizable but an imperative necessity We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment

where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy,

the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business.

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

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Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work.

He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism,

which is available at Democracy at Work.Info.

Professor Wolfe, welcome back.

Thank you, Brian.

Glad to be here.

Richard, very happy to be talking with you once again. There's so much going

on. You know, the Trump administration is preparing for the next sort of McCarthy era. J.D. Vance and

Stephen Miller in particular have announced that anyone to the left of Mussolini is going to be subject to

repression and crackdown. You have upcoming discussions between President Trump and

Xi Jinping over the issue, one of the issues being whether or not TikTok will be transferred to

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