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On The Record (4-17-26).

Trump Is Ruining the U.S. Economy

We reviewed a documentary about the journalist who built Democracy Now! from nothing and spent decades getting beaten, ignored, and proven right, yet somehow came out the other side an optimist. Then we got back to the slow-motion economic catastrophe unfolding in real time, because the administration that broke the supply chain with tariffs decided the logical next move was to start a war with the one country capable of shutting off the world’s oil supply. Inflation was already set to explode. Now we’ve handed it a match.

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On The Record 4-17-26. Trump Is Killing the U.S. Economy. The Iran War. Amy Goodman. Mike Figueredo. UNFTR logo