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Jeff Rubin is with us today. He's an expert on trade and energy, an economist and strategist with long experience

in international organizations.

He's also a renowned author of many things, including The End of Growth and the Carbon

Bubble.

His latest book is our topic today.

It's called The Expendables, How the Middle Class got screwed by Globalization. Welcome, Mr. Rubin.

Hi, pleasure to be here. All right. Well, you know, on the podcast, we just jump right into the book.

So you begin with the pandemic and its immediate impact. Stocks down, businesses collapsing, people dying, but this isn't

2020, 20, 20, this is 1957. What's going on here? That's right. It was, I think it was the year

that Elvis Presley first made his appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, but it was 19, and it was the year that Elvis Presley first made his appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.

But it was 19...

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