{"id":5743,"date":"2024-03-16T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/ctp\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2024-03-18T04:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:28:16","slug":"false-friends-and-false-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/ctp\/false-friends-and-false-money\/","title":{"rendered":"False friends and false money:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Hedges and the limited-hangout approach to financial crimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"False friends and false money:Chris Hedges and the limited-hangout approach to financial crimes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLAncqfy0h8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">False friends and false money:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Hedges and the limited-hangout approach to financial crimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emanuel Pastreich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent Candidate for President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Howard Switzer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economist \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 16, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emanuel Pastreich and Howard Switzer discuss the limited-hangout manner in which a large number of self-appointed \u201ctruth tellers\u201d approach economic crimes, and why they prefer to stress how rich people are mean to ordinary people rather than the concrete mechanisms by which banks make up money out of thin air for the rich and the rich then use other people\u2019s money for their schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussion begins with a consideration of a recent Chris Hedges Report in which he talks with Gretchen Morgenson about her book&nbsp;<em>Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon<\/em>&nbsp;(Times Books)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/how-private-equity-conquered-america\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges and the limited-hangout approach to financial crimes False friends and false money: Chris Hedges and the limited-hangout approach to financial crimes Emanuel Pastreich Independent Candidate for President Howard Switzer Economist \u00a0 March 16, 2024 Emanuel Pastreich and Howard Switzer discuss the limited-hangout manner in which a large number of self-appointed \u201ctruth tellers\u201d approach &#8230; <a title=\"False friends and false money:\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ctpolitics.org\/ctp\/false-friends-and-false-money\/\" aria-label=\"More on False friends and false money:\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.8 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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