Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!
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Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 20, 20261 hr 33 min

Is the West collapsing, or is the planet? Political commentator Konstantin Kisin and rebel economist Steve Keen go head-to-head on the biggest questions facing the West: immigration, the debt crisis, climate change, Trump, China and the future of AI. Konstantin Kisin is a satirist, social commentator and author, best known as the co-host of the Triggernometry podcast and the author of ‘An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West’. Born in the Soviet Union and now based in Britain, he has become one of the most prominent voices on free speech, culture and the rise of populism. ...

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I am Shannon Maldonado, who is a How do you feel about it? to civil unrest and violence. But I'm glad we're having this conversation

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because these are difficult things to talk about. And that's why China is outperforming the rest of the world. There are so many freedoms you don't get in America

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that you do get in China. Would you prefer a Chinese system if you- To America? Yes. What about political freedom,

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