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Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Parallels Between Volcker and Powell

The number of hours you have to work to get a thousand grams of protein or rice is actually increasing. Volcker's not like he's not mean, I don't think he doesn't want these people to suffer. It's just not as part of his. He's not thinking about it. Does Powell or Yellen or Bernanke know about the carbon footprint of quantitative easing? No, that's a byproduct. That's not in their mandate,. So the point being that these interest rate hikes really harm a lot of people abroad.

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