
Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit, Keir Starmer, Assange, Melenchon, Ukraine and Paul Mason
The Owen Jones Podcast
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Transport Costs, Oil Costs and Natural Gas
There was a small increase in demand by the majority of people. Speculators see that the cost of transporting a container from shanghai to southampton is going up. So they buy the supply in order to restrict the supply and then sell a little bit at a much, much higher price. Businesses did not invest because they didn't fear that the little people will not be able to buy the stuff that will come out of the other side of the production line. And socialist and hausterity for the maney created very low levels of investment. When investment is low, you have sit jobs, precarious jobs, only being produced, exploited jobs,. Not good quality jobs, not green jobs
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