Perot was right & so were Henry VII, Alexander Hamilton, and Deng Xiaoping -- It's time for America to recover our gutted middle class & to ensure our national security.

Late last week Ryan Petersen, the CEO of Flexport, put together a truly fascinating twitter thread describing the massive bottleneck of containers at the Port of Long Beach, the nation's busiest...

While the immediate bottleneck problem had to do with too many containers and not enough land on which to handle and store them (particularly empty ones), it highlights an even larger problem that goes back to a major change in US trade policy in the 1980s, a part of Reagan's neoliberal revolution.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Debate: Are Republicans' Going to Use the "Monster" of Inflation to Scare People Away From the Build Back Better Plan?
- Jennifer Stefano, Vice President & Chief Strategist - Commonwealth Foundation / Fellow - Independent Women's Forum

Article: "Inflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The 1973 Arab Oil Embargo: The Old Rules No Longer Apply" by Greg Myre.

Article: "Nixon shock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China shuts terminal at world's 3rd busiest port after COVID case" by Bloomberg.

Article: "America faces supply-chain disruption and shortages. Here's why" by Matt Stoller.

Article: "States that cut off enhanced jobless aid are still asking, where are the workers?" by Christopher Rugaber, Casey Smith.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro and Appreciation and Interest (1896) by Frederick L. Hoffman.

Site: SHERO - Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "Apple Knew About Human Trafficking on Facebook" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over human trafficking" by AP.

Article: "CompuServe" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Exclusive: TikTok recommends serial killers, weapons videos and gun accessories to 13-year-old users, and offers links to buy them" by John Byrne.

Article: "Usa, Ōita" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fractional-reserve banking" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Covid Shows How Fragile & Wrong Neoliberal Trade Policies Are" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Wealth of Nation by Adam Smith.

Article: "The Beautiful, Dumb Dream of McDonald's Peace Theory" by Paul Musgrave.

Article: "Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791]" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Kicking Away the Ladder: The "Real" History of Free Trade" by Ha-Joon Chang, John Gershman.

Article: "There's Nothing "Normal" About Having a Middle Class: It has to be Chosen" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned." by Ryan Petersen.

Book: How China Escaped Shock Therapy by Isabella M. Weber.

Book: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "The U.S. Trade Deficit: How Much Does It Matter?" by James McBride and Andrew Chatzky.

Article: "Wealthy foreigners bought $100 billion in US real estate" by Robert Frank.

Site: "Flexport".

Article: "Here's That Trade Deficit Coming Back - Foreigners Buy More US Houses" by Tim Worstall.

Article: "Billionaire Scion Tom Friedman" by David Sirota.

Article: "5 Countries That Own the Most U.S. Debt" by Andrew Sebastian.

Article: "Who's Left to Tax? US Taxation of Corporations and Their Shareholders."" by Steve Rosenthal and Theo Burke.

Article: "U.S. Trade Balance 1970-2021" by Macrotrends.

Article: "International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate" by National Association of Realtors.

Article: "Too Much Import, Too Little Export" by Scott Horsley, Sally Herships.

Article: "Total number of residential properties purchased by Chinese buyers in the United States from 2010 to 2021" by Statista.

Article: "Foreigners Now Own 30 Million Acres Of Prime U.S. Farmland" by Michael Snyder.

Article: "U.S. Inflation Resumes Quicker Pace in September" by US Inflation Calculator.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO)

Book: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama.

Article: "Ross Perot's Warning of a 'Giant Sucking Sound' on Nafta Echoes Today" by Eduardo Porter.

Article: "Court Blocks Controversial Medicare Switch for Retired NYC Workers" by Sam Mellins.

Article: "Eric Adams calls Mayor de Blasio's NYC retiree health care shift a 'bait and switch'" by Michael Gartland.

Article: "Chicago poised to create one of the nation's largest 'guaranteed basic income' programs" by Mark Guarino.

Article: "International Child Labor & Forced Labor Reports" by Bureau of International Labor Affairs.

Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shipping disruption: Why are so many queuing to get to the US?" by Jack Goodman & Micah Luxen.

Article: "Explaining federal reserve monetary policy" by Manabu Saeki, Steven Shull.

Article: "How Obamacare improved mental health coverage" by Louise Norris.

Site: Aden Forecast

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Three: The Supreme Court will be hearing the Mississippi Abortion Case on 12/1, which not only threatens abortion, but also the right to birth control, marriage, and even sex.
- Lizz Winstead, Comedian & Author - / Former co-creator & head writer of The Daily Show / Reproductive Rights Activist, Founder & Chief Creative Officer - Abortion Access Front

Site: Whole Woman's Health Alliance.

Article: "How the abortion debate moved away from "safe, legal, and rare"" by Anna North.

Case: "Roe v. Wade".

Case: "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", 1992.

Article: "This U.S. doctor says he can 'reverse' a medical abortion — and experimental practice is used in Canada" by Sharon Kirkey.

Article: "Remember Sen Grassley's tweet about filling in for Pence?" by imaginary girl.

Article: "Trump endorses re-election of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley" by Christopher Bing.

Article: "Sen. Grassley confuses DC over whether he will handle electoral certification" by Steven Nelson.

Article: "Pence refused to leave the Capitol during the January 6 riot despite Secret Service agents urging him to evacuate, saying, 'I'm not getting in the car': book" by Oma Seddiq.

Article: "Argentina" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy." - Jack Welch.

Article: "Pat Grassley" by Wikipedia.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, Conversations with Great Minds: Brian C. Muraresku, Alum of Brown University w/degree in Latin, Greek & Sanskrit / Alum of Georgetown Law practicing international law for 15 years / Founding Executive Director-Doctors For Cannabis Regulation / The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name

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