Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle as a culture war consumes american politics during this election cycle the economy remains in a big area state millions of people live on the margins the only constant for them is insecurity economists debate and eventually recovery they speak of a u. Of the end of now but is the reality a k a recovery a permanent underclass. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Richard Wolffe in new york he is Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in westport we cross to peter schiff he is chief global strategist at europe a civic Asset Management right gentlemen crosswalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to new york richard you know looking at the news about the economy looking at a lot of macro numbers and sometimes i th
Understood we see the crash having made it worse the growth of the wealthy at the very top having outstripped everything we could have imagined at the same time that now over 60000000 americans have had to file for one or another kind of state or federal Unemployment Compensation assistance this is a system that is still going out of control in terms of extremes of wealth inequality and income inequality and theres nothing on the horizon that suggests that thats going to change and so i think that is becoming a permanent quality of this economy and is a society that used to in the 20th century pretend that it was a vast middle class that capitalism was a tide that lifted all boats i dont think this is politically already a logically sustainable. Peter the same question to you because if we look at the Consumption Patterns of the top 10 percent during the worst of the pin demick the lock down their consumption went down Something Like 15 percent but the class that serves them their inco
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