#1081 Richard Wolff: Trump's Tariffs, Elon Musk, and the BRICS

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined for a second time by Dr. Richard Wolf. I'm leaving a link to our first interview, which was about Socializm, communism, and Trump second term. in the description of this one, and today we're going to talk about Trump's tariffs Elon Musk and His influence on American politicians and the BRIC so Doctor Wolf, welcome back to the ch uh to the show. It's always an honor to everyone.

Thank you very much, Ricardo. I'm very glad to be here. So let's start with Trump's tariff. So of course he has just announced uh tariffs for countries all around the world. I mean practically Every country out there. Uh, for example, he announced twenty five percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products, twenty percent on products coming from the European Union where I live.

And an additional ten percent on Chinese products, an additional ten percent because it adds to the already existing tariffs. And I've heard many things, including from American political pundits, I've heard them saying that this is about fair trade. Not exactly trade war. That it is a working class war against the financial system because uh the objective Trump has in mind is to bring back manufacturing jobs to the US and so on. So what do you make of these tariffs and what will be

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