Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell
We begin with Trump’s escalating war against the Fed and its Chairman Jerome Powell and look into how Trump wants to follow the disastrous path of dictators he admires, Hungary’s Orban and Turkey’s Erdogan, who took political control of their central banks causing rampant inflation and soaring interest rates. Joining us is Robert Hockett, the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Finance and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University who has first-hand experience working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and continues to consult for a number of US federal, state and local legislators and regulators. He drafted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” resolution for the House of Representatives and officially advises her on economic policy. His latest books are Money from Nothing Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying About Debt and Learn to Love the Federal Reserve, Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal, The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Finance and most recently Spread the Fed: Distributed Central Banking for Productive Monetary Policy.
The Consequences of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education
Then we assess the consequences of the Supreme Court decision to allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. Joining us is David Halperin, a co-founder and editor of Republic Report. He was previously a senior policy advisor for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign; founding executive director of the American Constitution Society; White House speechwriter and special assistant for national security affairs to President Clinton; and counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee. His latest article at Republic Report is “Trump Team Weakens Bipartisan Law That Protects Students and Veterans From Predatory Colleges.”
What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised?
Then finally we explore the war inside MAGA over the failure to release the Epstein files as promised and try to understand how reneging on providing the “smoking gun” that proves the “Deep State” is run by a cabal of pedophiles is what is bothering Trump’s base. Joining us is Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling, a freelance journalist specializing in narrative features and investigative reporting. He has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won a George Polk Award, and was voted Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press association. He is the author of A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears), and If It Sounds Like a Quack…: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine and his latest book is