Across europe growing infection rates fresh lockdown measures and the inevitable health and Economic Hardship to follow is the headache for which there are no easy fixes. From prague in the Czech Republic im now joined by. Jury. He is from the Czech University of a Life Sciences that the Czech Republic was one of the countries merging actually quite well to keep the pandemic on the controls so whats gone wrong now. Ok to rest her all starts to quickly and people i think that the parrot much about a virus during the summer day that entire program a soda virus going back and now we are under the 2nd wave of a chase much stronger going into 1st one but tell us more about the new restrictions and how much public support is that old. Ok so according to the new restrictions old schools and pops and james should be closed from today including the school song from down a small hates to primary schools and they can do gardens and also the pops and so long people are according to my opinion very
Heavily in the new west coast talk breaks down the prospects for an economic recovery. Hello and welcome across top were all beings are considered im Peter Lavelle as the 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 you of the end you know 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 west cork 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 l
Losing and this is the problem now with this economy in the u. S. The game of the u. S. Is now over because there is no path out there is no escape from the toxic debt there is no recovery at this point theres only how to manage the loss its going to be economic collapse with honor if Richard Nixon were in charge and this were to be the ms ation of the economy how do we honorably fail of course on this debt the deficit gets added to the National Debt every year like you know i remember when it 1st hit a trillion dollars and we were like wow and then it hit 10 trillion dollars somewhere and then now its like 2530. 00 china is just like escalating so rapidly and who knows like the whole time when i 1st had a trillion people were shocked and scared and then when it hit 10 trillion people like oh my god this cant last and then they hit 20 trillion and at 25 trillion and you know. And i get to a quadrillion and the world continue as it is but if feels like you know if youre comparing it to
Simulation goes away lets find out from Stacy Herbert well max you know there was some art a few years ago when we used to be able to meet in person at that little art festival i think it was in miami we had some banana on the wall well you might say our Balance Sheet is looking like that banana meat republic budget deficit hits record 3 trillion dollars as us spends 100 percent more than it earns unfortunately due to helicopter money it is not unlikely that the exploding deficit will ever shrink again until the Monetary System is overhauled so year to date and that we have only one month left in fiscal 2020 the us a spent 6. 00 trillion and collected just 3. 00 trillion which means that its outlays are 100 percent more than its receipts many are asking why dont we do we even collect this 3 charlie and taxes why dont we just like print money for everybody right it brings up a lot of questions you know one thing is that the deficit is to new jersey and its more than 100 percent of g. D.
That we have only one month left in fiscal 2020 the us a spent 6. 05 trillion and collected just 3. 048 trillion which means that its outlays are 100 percent more than its receipts many are asking why dont we do we even collect this 3 charlie and taxes why dont we just like print money for everybody right it brings up a lot of questions you know one thing is that the deficit is to you and us more than 100 percent of g. D. P. And thats true for countries around the world and some play 20300 percent g. D. P. But whats creeping up now is the interest on that deficit even at these low low Interest Rates near 0 percent Interest Rates that interest cost on the deficit is getting close to americas outlay for the military which is their biggest expense so usually what happens when in fact the interest on the debt gets to a point where that also equals your g. D. P. As a country you are technically in default and you are officially no longer a country what is left is a memory of a country you k