Demystifying the Petrodollar Scheme with Alex Gladstein (WiM082)
The "What is Money?" Show
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What's Happened to the American Farmer?
In 19 71, the us. was unwilling to lower its tariffs on commodities that foreigners could produce less expensively than american farmers and manufacturers,. So we basically structured the international system a, so that other s had to become dependent on our food stuffs, on orrin, things like that. We would go in and like and adjust, let's san ah. The whole thing was was was to kind of exploit, right? And in what's really crazys we talk about c p i, and you have winesteam going on about like the a, it's all fake and everything. K, so not exactly an instrument of altruism, we would say, right?
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