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How Donald Trump is destroying the global economy | Ann Pettifor interview
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Ann Pettifor is an economist and author of The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet.
Ann swung by to speak to Ava about the global financial system and how it has been rigged to only support the mega-rich, the powers at the heart of the system ensuring the it never alters to support those who need to be supported, and how the current US President is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the skewed system.
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