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Supposed to support the biden agenda. >> this is the communication message that democrats have at the moment, if you look at components of the package, they are popular even in west virginia. i just saw story about how for example pre-k almost universal in the state of west virginia. the biden package includes pre-k for american child, child care, higher taxes on the rich are popular even in west virginia. to your point. so well taken, in midterms, the party in power almost always losing seat. i think that single exception would be 2002 after 9/11 occurred and american people wanted to show su...

They are a frontal challenge to chinese naval supremacy. china knows it. the united states knows it. france knows it. but france doesn't want to be in the middle of that might, and that's another subtext to what's happening here. >> jonathan, while looking atd the biden package, you said something interesting about china's leader, xi. >> yeah. the chinese, of course, are the forefront of the biden foreign policy. there had been hopes to have a meeting on the sidelines of the g-20 in italy next month. that's not happening. xi jinping not going. xi jinping hasn't left china in two years. a lot i...

Yves here. Lynn Fries and her guest Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist at UNCTAD, look at the prospects for the global economy after Covid and aren’t keen about what they see. The off and on recovery has benefitted the rich and left the poor behind, for the same reasons that the aftermath of global financial increased inequality: policymakers don’t want to change a hyper-financialized system. Even though a growing number of economists and commentators share this high-level view, Konzul-Wright and Fries explore the various mechanisms that have produced this current system, the fragiliti...