Massachusetts amherst and formerly a professor of economics at yale and the new school among others hes also the founder of democracy at work and host of economic update on you tube and they have a very interesting conversation about workers strikes then i go into aggressive policing and redacted correspondent enters lee does some Fact Checking on voting but 1st lets go to that discussion between we camp and richard will. Reward thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure me glad to be here i dont know anyone better than you to diagnose the problems right now or looking at an economic crisis possibly 30 percent Unemployed People thought for an across the country and around the world if only someone had told us that such a crisis might happen if only there had been some kind of warning signs but instead no one could see that capitalism would have such a problem is that right. Well has a fuel cost but basically youre right the consensus was that we were doing really pretty well the pre
A Staten Island warehouse Christian Smalls and he had been pushing other workers been working with them trying to form a union and at the same time they had also been speaking out about the lack of Health Protections at this particular warehouse they had planned a walk out couple mondays ago and then they fired Christian Smalls that was the 1st part of the story that had come out in the media how did they contact you about a story that you did they they did because i talked about Christian Smalls getting fired for wanting to form a union amazon or at least a p. R. Person i guess who was working for amazon since me an email and says hey mr cousins you have a lot of misinformation in your segment here would you mind retracting this and here is the correct information now the correct information was nothing but quotes from amazon executives. And the next day im about to do this segment just say listen i have a say dont want to get sued here so here is what amazon has said in response but
President of Lipo Oil Associates in new york we have helen i need ski she is an american journalist with r. T. And in Great Barrington we cross to pete earley he is an economist with the American Institute for Economic Research all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate andrew in houston let me go to you 1st here. The i guess this is the 2nd shock in as many weeks for you because youve covered the oil markets and now we have the process being rolled out to deal with the corona virus when weve seen markets crash and we see a lot of disorder and a lot of questioning of what direction we need to go into but there seems to be quite clear that a recession is going to be upon us and very very soon if not were in it already go ahead and what are your thoughts. Well i think thats right because if you look around the world we have School Closures we have industries telling people to telecommute we also have really the shutdown of the
Members have made a landmark deal to cut Oil Production as the sector has been ravaging the virus well have expert analysis on what this is doing to markets. Small businesses in the United States have been promised emergency funding to provide some relief but where is that help will break it all about it a packed show today so lets go and dive right in. We lead our global report today with talks of lifting restrictions due to the coronavirus something the World Health Organization officials addressed monday. Wind called 19 accelerates the finest. Rates might move slowly out of the woods the way down is march. On the way up. The 2 means control measures must be lifted truly and weve gone through. Not only. In spain which has been one of the hardest hit countries by the virus has started to loosen its lock down as the curve inside borders begins to flow and construction Manufacturing Business is with the nation are starting to return to work but most Public Places will remain closed unti
Sort of. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries. What do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal elections but. Its more about what it says about the state of politics its what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting abou