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Crosscurrents of US Politics

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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The Price Increase, Not the War

Every business that adjusts the traffic to sanctions, has the ask itself. How much money am i going to spend to re root my activity? I don't want to spend a ton of money and discover three weeks later that it was for nothing. That's what's going on, the sanctions, not the war. And how do they offset the damage to their profits: They raise their prices. There's another in inflation. In idaho, something remarkable is happening; citizens with either political party have collected over a hundred thousand signatures calling for tax breaks for rich people. Reminds me of the yellow movement in france - but here it is in idaho. Is there a danger that

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