In the second half of this episode of the “Keiser Report,” economics professor Michael Hudson, author of “J Is for Junk Economics,” talks about the fake economy, the abandoned Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and Donald Trump’s first hundred hours.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly

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