#241 Why the Economy Is Screwed (with Matt Stoller)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week I spoke with Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He’s a contributor on the YouTube show "Breaking Points" and author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. In our conversation I asked Matt about whether it’s time for a revolution--to do something radical? He reveals something very interesting in his response! More Info: Follow Matt Stoller on Twitter https://twitter.com/matthewstoller Join me for a meditation over on my other podcast "Above the Noise" only on Luminary: http://luminary.link/meditate Join my mailing list and find out more about a one-off special with Wim Hof on July 10th, our live Zoom conversations and more about a live recording of Gabor Mate for under The Skin https://www.russellbrand.com/join

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This is a free little piece, 15 minutes of a
0:06.4	recent episode to encourage you to sign up to Under the Skin on Luminary and what could be more
0:11.4	encouraging than this conversation I had with Matt Stola, director of research at the American
0:15.8	Economic Liberties Project, a contributor to their YouTube show Breaking Point,
0:20.1	author of Goliath, the 100 year war between monopoly power and democracy,
0:24.4	democratic Washington insider who speaks openly and honestly, plainly and transparently about the
0:30.2	complexity of modern party politics. He also used to do a TV show with me on FX in America,
0:36.0	don't worry no one did. If you listen to Under the Skin on Apple podcasts please leave us a review,
0:40.4	they really help others find us. Here's one, Lindsay Newman says, I've just joined Luminary, sorry
0:44.7	for the late arrival, fucking fantastic, oh swearing. Thank you so much for bringing these podcasts to
0:49.5	the many. You are showing up in the most important time of my life, Lindsay, thank you. In this part of
0:54.0	our conversation with Matt, we talk about revolution and my strong belief that you cannot solve the
1:00.3	complex problems that we are currently experiencing within the system that created them. Matt is very
1:06.9	honest and open about that, of course he's a democrat party insider so he believes that reform
1:11.2	is, you know, that reform can save the world but you know, I don't believe that but we didn't get
1:14.9	upset about it. He also says that the bureaucracies we currently have a slow by design but they
1:19.5	necessarily talk about the federal reserve printing nine trillion, 600 years worth of money in the
1:24.2	span of 10 years and what that's done to the American economy and he also significantly says US
1:29.1	policymakers only took COVID seriously when it started to affect the stock market. How does that
1:34.4	form our reality when the financial reality is more significant than a medical or social reality?
1:39.0	These are the kind of questions that are raised in this segment of Under the Skin.
1:43.0	Trying to achieve equality with the annihilation of category is not successful. That's exactly right.
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