Huge bubbles in AI & US stock market grow, while real economy is in recession
The US economy depends more and more on enormous bubbles in the stock market and AI. The 10% of richest Americans drive half of all spending, while the real economy in many states is in recession. If the bubble pops, it could cause a severe crisis. Political economist Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCVrLPTUHQ
Topics
0:00 Economy divided between rich & everyone else
1:36 Many US states already in recession
3:11 Biggest stock market bubble in history
5:31 90% of stocks owned by 10% richest Americans
7:23 Magnificent Seven (Mag7) Big Tech stocks
9:07 Ten Titans Big Tech stocks
9:58 AI bubble
11:46 (CLIP) Jeff Bezos: AI is in "good bubble"
13:26 95% of AI pilot programs fail
13:55 Investors keep buying overvalued stocks
15:12 Markets can remain irrational
15:26 Irrational exuberance
15:50 Dot-com bubble
16:28 US share of global stock markets
17:28 US vs Chinese tech company revenue
18:24 Tesla vs global automotive industry
20:49 Top 10 US stocks: 16% global market cap
21:07 Recession
22:23 Stagflation
23:04 AI capex contribution to US GDP growth
25:07 AI is eating the economy
26:01 AI drives up electricity bills
26:50 Trump shuts down renewable energy
27:42 AI adds more to GDP than shopping
28:49 US job growth collapses
32:13 Bifurcated economy
33:01 Outro
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Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela, as US military kills innocent people
The United States is waging a war on Venezuela. Donald Trump authorized the CIA to carry out "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, the US military has killed innocent people in boats in the Caribbean, including citizens of Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. Ben Norton reports.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAkNZCjstVI
Check out our related videos:
- Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Trump's war on Venezuela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc
- Trump-backed Venezuelan coup leader promises to give oil to US corporations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7pHmYUCMk
Topics
0:00 USA wages war on Venezuela
1:56 Trump authorizes CIA to attack Venezuela
3:49 Goal of US war: regime change
7:18 (CLIP) Trump on CIA ops in Venezuela
8:02 Nobel "Peace" Prize winner wants more war
9:22 (CLIP) Venezuelan coup leader María Corina Machado
10:30 Trump recycles Bush's "WMD" lies
11:29 Facts about drug trafficking
12:44 (CLIP) Debunking Trump's Venezuela drug lies
14:11 Coup leader wants to give Venezuelan oil to USA
15:19 (CLIP) María Corina Machado vows to privatize oil
16:13 US military kills Colombians
17:15 US military kills fishermen from Trinidad
18:48 (CLIP) Trinidad news broadcast on US strikes
19:33 Venezuela's UN ambassador condemns attacks
19:52 (CLIP) USA kills innocent people in Caribbean
20:20 In the US empire's Opposite Land, war is peace
21:08 Nobel "Peace" Prize winner requests US invasion
22:33 Outro
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Trump-backed Venezuelan coup leader promises to give oil to US corporations
2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry", she told Donald Trump Jr. "American companies ... are going to make a lot of money", she promised. Ben Norton exposes the neocolonial US war on Venezuela.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7pHmYUCMk
Check out our related video on how Machado supports US and Israeli wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc
Topics
0:00 (CLIP) "We are going to privatize all our industry"
0:54 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado
1:41 (CLIP) María Corina Machado supports Israel
2:07 Nobel "Peace" Prize for warmonger
2:28 Venezuela's oil & US coup attempts
3:31 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off Venezuelan oil
3:46 Machado: Far-right opposition leader
4:23 Machado wants US invasion
5:19 CIA-linked NED funds Machado
6:00 Machado interview with Donald Trump Jr.
6:53 (CLIP) Donald Trump Jr. & Machado
8:23 Venezuela's Pinochet + Margaret Thatcher
8:46 (CLIP) US companies will "make a lot of money"
9:05 Selling their countries to USA: vendepatrias
9:23 Machado's meeting with George W Bush
9:59 Trump's war on Venezuela
11:04 (CLIP) Regime change plans
11:24 Targeting US empire's adversaries
11:56 (CLIP) Machado's US first foreign policy
12:12 Donald Trump
12:25 (CLIP) Machado praises Donald Trump
12:45 Trump's coup attempts
14:06 (CLIP) "Biggest opportunity" for regime change
14:34 Marco Rubio: chief coup-plotter
15:06 Targeting Cuba & Nicaragua as well
15:57 (CLIP) US officials supporting Machado
17:03 Rubio lied about Cuban parents
17:54 Miami, Florida: coup capital
18:24 Elon Musk
19:15 (CLIP) Musk gave Starlink to Venezuelan opposition
19:33 Starlink: tool of US imperialism
20:08 Bitcoin & Trump's corrupt crypto schemes
21:39 BlackRock: world's biggest Bitcoin holder
23:11 (CLIP) Machado loves Bitcoin
23:40 Machado: US coup puppet
23:57 Outro
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Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel's genocide & Trump's war on Venezuela
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump's war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro. Ben Norton exposes the ugly truth.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc
Topics
0:00 María Corina Machado: US-funded coup-plotter
0:45 Nobel "Peace" Prizes for US war criminals
1:44 Machado supports genocidal Israeli regime
2:38 Venezuela supports Palestine
3:04 Machado requested Israeli military intervention
3:46 UN experts: Israel is committing genocide
4:24 Trump's war on Venezuela
6:26 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil
7:32 Trump's 2019 coup attempt in Venezuela
8:12 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil
8:24 Trump backs Venezuelan opposition
9:09 (CLIP) Machado called & thanked Trump
9:34 US-backed coup attempt in 2002
10:16 Obama declared Venezuela a "threat"
10:49 US sanctions on Venezuela
11:43 Machado called for foreign intervention
12:06 (CLIP) Machado requests "international force"
12:38 Norwegian politician criticizes Nobel committee
14:14 Machado lobbies for more sanctions
15:04 Sanctions kill many Venezuelans
16:08 Sanctions cause millions of deaths
17:31 Marco Rubio lobbied Nobel committee
19:00 Machado met with George W Bush
20:10 US government funded Machado
21:52 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
22:56 NED congratulates Machado
24:59 Nobel laureate Obama: war criminal
26:53 Nobel laureate Kissinger: war criminal
28:02 Nobel laureate Dalai Lama: CIA asset
29:29 Nobel "Peace" Prize for war
30:13 Outro
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World leaders rebel against US & Israel: to save Gaza, they demand international intervention
Leaders from dozens of countries condemned the USA and Israel in their speeches at the UN General Assembly, demanding international intervention to save Gaza. Diplomats staged a mass walkout to protest Netanyahu's speech. Ben Norton shows how Latin American governments are standing in solidarity with Palestine, and resisting US imperialism.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mik74Pri9bY
Topics
0:00 Countries condemn US & Israel
0:45 (CLIPS) World leaders support Gaza
1:54 UN diplomats protest Netanyahu in walkout
3:33 USA abuses veto at UN
4:49 Perspectives of non-Western countries
6:13 Latin America resists US imperialism
6:59 (CLIP) Cuba supports Palestine
8:03 USA vetos UN Gaza resolutions
9:02 (CLIP) Brazil's Lula on Gaza
9:30 Colombia demands action on Gaza
10:43 (CLIP) Colombian President Gustavo Petro
13:38 Nicaragua's Sandinista government
14:00 (CLIP) Nicaragua supports Palestine
14:33 (CLIP) Venezuela supports Palestine
14:58 US fascism
15:20 (CLIP) Petro: USA is new Nazi Germany
16:01 US revokes Petro's visa
17:02 Venezuela compares US to Nazi Germany
17:48 (CLIP) Venezuela warns of new Nazis
18:32 Western colonialism
18:56 (CLIP) Nicaragua: West looted our wealth
19:42 Decline of US unipolar order
20:09 (CLIP) Cuba on US imperialism
20:49 Wall Street debt traps
21:18 (CLIP) Debt as neocolonialism
21:31 Debt for climate swaps
22:38 (CLIP) Gustavo Petro on climate debt
23:17 Trump denies climate science
23:47 (CLIP) US politicians "don't believe in science"
24:00 Trump's attacks on Venezuela
24:40 (CLIP) History of US war on Venezuela
26:22 (CLIP) USA wants Venezuela's oil
26:45 Trump's WMD lies about Venezuela
27:54 (CLIP) Venezuela condemns US wars
28:43 Illegal US attacks on Venezuela
29:06 (CLIP) Cuba on threat of US war
30:07 (CLIP) Colonial Monroe Doctrine
30:40 (CLIP) Nicaragua denounces neocolonialism
31:56 Need for UN reform
33:22 (CLIP) UN members "no longer have power"
33:37 USA fuels war
34:02 (CLIP) Honduras on need for global reform
35:58 UN's colonial structure
36:40 (CLIP) Need for new international order
38:19 Multipolarity vs US unipolarity
40:38 (CLIP) Cuba's vision for a new world
41:17 (CLIP) Venezuela's vision for a new world
41:47 Voices silenced by Western media
42:25 Outro
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