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Aug 23

How does China's system really work? This famous Chinese professor explains

How do China's government, political system, and socialist market economy actually work? How does China see democracy, the USA, and Donald Trump's trade war? Renowned Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei explains the China model in this interview with Ben Norton. VIDEO with subtitles her ... Show More

29m 49s

Aug 20

What drives US politics and the new cold war on China? Monopolies

One of the main goals of the US political and economic system is to protect corporate monopolies. Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations fear Chinese competitors, so the US government is trying to ban them. Political economist Ben Norton explains how imperialism works, and what dri ... Show More

52m 32s

Aug 16

Trump's tariffs backfire: India moves closer to China, strengthening BRICS unity

The US government has tried for years to recruit India for its new cold war on China, but Donald Trump's aggressive tariffs have backfired, encouraging New Delhi to improve its relations with Beijing, strengthening unity in BRICS. Political economist Ben Norton explains the compl ... Show More

45m 32s

Jul 2022

Money Talks: Britain's growth crisis

Britain’s Conservative party may be changing leadership, but it will take a lot more than that to change the country's gloomy economic situation. Prices are rising at their fastest pace in 40 years–at one of the highest rates in the West. The cost of servicing the country’s ballo ... Show More

39m 50s

May 2022

Money Talks: The next recession

Since 1900, the global economy has fallen into a recession about once a decade on average. In 2020, the world experienced the deepest downturn since the second world war. Just two years on, is another recession on the way? This week, hosts Soumaya Keynes and Mike Bird focus on th ... Show More

39m 34s

Jul 2022

Money Talks: Britain's growth crisis

Britain’s Conservative party may be changing leadership, but it will take a lot more than that to change the country's gloomy economic situation. Prices are rising at their fastest pace in 40 years–at one of the highest rates in the West. The cost of servicing the country’s ballo ... Show More

39m 50s

May 2022

Money Talks: The next recession

Since 1900, the global economy has fallen into a recession about once a decade on average. In 2020, the world experienced the deepest downturn since the second world war. Just two years on, is another recession on the way? This week, hosts Soumaya Keynes and Mike Bird focus on th ... Show More

39m 34s

Sep 2022

Inflation, recession? What next for the global economy? Three experts dig into the latest Chief Economists Outlook

What’s going on in the global economy? It is a question that the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists seeks to answer every three months with its Chief Economists Outlook.For large parts of the world inflation is high and rising, cutting deep into people’s real in ... Show More

35m 20s

Apr 2023

Larry Summers on China, Russia, and the Global Economy

Could the United States enter a recession this year? Renowned economist Larry Summers thinks such a scenario is more likely than not. He also thinks the United States’ increasingly hawkish China policy is dangerous for the world. Summers discusses all that and more with host Ravi ... Show More

36m 47s

Apr 2024

Bidenomics: How the economy may sway the US election

The president has fired “a bazooka” of money into the economy. Will voters reward him? Joe Biden says the economy is doing great thanks to a series of policies he calls Bidenomics. The idea is to jump-start the US following the COVID collapse with massive investments in the indus ... Show More

26m 43s

A new Third World debt crisis? The need ...