WILL THE FEDS TRIGGER A FULL-BLOWN RECESSION?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Could the Feds "accidentally" trigger a recession just in time for the 2022 election? Richard Wolff warns that our economy is in "serious trouble." Elon Musk calls for Senate not to pass Build Back Better. Social Security Works' Troy Miller joins Thom to discuss what Joe Manchin may, or may not, do in WV when it comes to drug prices and how progressives can reach across the aisle to force Manchin to lower drug prices.
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| 0:55.2 | So a couple of stories here that I just want to put on your radar, and then I'll pick up your phone calls. |
| 0:59.5 | Over on Daily Co's Chaplin M, a fellow who is a chaplin in a hospital in Michigan, |
| 1:06.8 | is writing just this heartbreaking op-ed or diary, I guess they're called diaries over at Daily Co's. |
| 1:15.5 | He writes just a quick update because I can't bear to do much more. |
| 1:19.1 | As a chaplin, I'm sorry, it's in Wisconsin, as a chaplin in a hospital in a small city, |
| 1:22.9 | northeast Wisconsin, I find more daily heartbreak now than even in the previous months of the pandemic. |
| 1:29.5 | The numbers are at least as high in our ICU and our general COVID unit. |
| 1:33.3 | The difference is the ages of the people who are dying and those who are closest to them. |
| 1:37.5 | And by the way, this is what we're seeing with the Delta variant and with the Omicron variant |
| 1:43.3 | is that they are hitting young people. |
| 1:45.7 | This is a COVID is no longer a disease, it's no longer the boomerim mover, it's no longer a disease |
| 1:50.5 | that attacks old people, largely or even exclusively. |
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