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Sep 2023
33 m

A huge debt crisis is coming

Ben Norton
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Around the world, debt is skyrocketing - and rising interest rates are making it unsustainable. In this first part, Ben Norton discusses the impending crisis in the United States, before explaining in part two how Wall Street traps the Global South in debt. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3QOBbQR2g US government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is ... Show More
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