It's time to break the curse of "Voodoo Economics"; a return to manufacturing must be at the core of the effort to rebuild the "wealth of this nation."

China just surpassed America as the nation with the greatest wealth in the world.

But what does that mean? What is "wealth"?

Look around you. If you're at home, you may be seeing a living room with furniture and a television. In the kitchen there are appliances, dishes and cookware. Other rooms have beds, a desk, bookshelves and tools.

The house or apartment itself sits on a foundation and is made of 2x4s and sheetrock and copper wiring and piping, covered with siding and roofing to protect it from the elements.

All of those things are wealth. They have value.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "What is the "Wealth of a Nation"?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Global Wealth Surges as China Overtakes U.S. to Grab Top Spot" by Rich Miller.

Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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

Article: "The Financial System Should Be Less Than Half The Size of Today" by Nathan Lewis.

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

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 .

Article: "headline" by .

Article: "'Big Mac' Supplants Big Steel As Manufacturing Jobs Lag" 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: "The U.S. Trade Deficit" by WITA.

Article: "The media's inflation hysteria —more theatrics? " by Eric Boehlert.

Article: "Two things are true: Inflation is real, and the media is hyping it and ignoring better economic news" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Mercantilism" by Will Kenton.

Article: "Mercantilism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Ricardo" by Wikipedia.

Site: Paradisos del Sol Winery and Organic Vineyard.

Article: "Charts On The Decline Of Union Membership" by The Truth About Unions.

Article: "Futures" by Jason Fernando.

Article: "Tulip mania" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Funds Rate - 62 Year Historical Chart" by Macrotrends.

Site: "The Righting".

Hour Two: What is Financialization and How Has It Damaged America?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt - A History of Credit Cards" by Dan Bryan.

Quote: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" - William Shakespeare (Polonius).

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2020 stock market crash" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Most ransacked office on 1/6" by gab13by13.

Book: Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan.

Article: "'This is not about me,' AOC says as House debates censuring Paul Gosar over violent video – live " by Vivian Ho.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene has been stripped of her committee assignments. What's next?" by Clare Foran, Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz.

Article: "Fact Sheet: Build Back Better Investments in Care Will Boost Economic Growth and Help Businesses Thrive" by White House.

Article: "Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Car Allowance Rebate System" ("cash for clunkers") by Wikipedia.

Article: "With a pen stroke, President Joe Biden cancels Keystone XL pipeline project" by DW.

Article: "How Sweden Saved Itself" by Jeremy Stahl.

Article: "Iceland Has Jailed 29 Bankers. Why Can't the UK and US Do the Same?" by Stefan Simanowitz.

Article: "Iraq War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Retail Gas Price" by YCharts.

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

Article: "Why are gas prices so high? And who is to blame?" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Banning books about Martin Luther King Jr. and opposing school district desegregation efforts: Inside Moms for Liberty's deep ties to the anti-civil rights movement" by Olivia Little.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Article: "GERMAN FUGITIVES TELL OF ATROCITIES AT HANDS OF NAZIS; Americans Bear Out Tales of Outrages and Cruelties in Racial "Purging." JEWS FLEE PERSECUTION Pour Across Borders, Fearing for Lives -- Police Apathetic and Courts Powerless. ALL NEWS IS CENSORED People Dare Not Talk to Foreign Correspondents -- Phones Tapped -- Spies Overrun Berlin." by ny tIMES.

Article: "Coffee and tea drinking may be associated with reduced rates of stroke and dementia" by PLOS.

Article: "What Alabama Can Expect From $1T Infrastructure Bill" by Michael Seale.

Article: "Reports: Alabama Congressman claims credit for infrastructure project he voted against " by Pat Duggins.

Article: "Palmer on New Funding for Birmingham's Northern Beltline" by Gary Palmer.

Article: "Governor Ducey Invests $100 Million To Expand High-Speed Broadband" by Jonathan Marrero.

Article: "Biden calls out Republicans who have taken credit for rescue plan but voted against it" by David Knowles.

Article: "Electric vehicles could fully recharge in under 5 minutes with new charging station cable design" by Purdue University.

Book: Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman & The Evil of Female Loaferism by Butch Lee.

Article: "Mary Daly" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Manchin opposes $4,500 'not-American' federal grant for union-made electric vehicles: Throws Biden's $1.7T Build Back Better agenda into doubt with just a week until Dems want it passed" by Geoff Earle.

Article: "'Inexcusable': Manchin Leads Charge Against Biden's Pro-Union Electric Vehicle Tax Credit" by Julia Conley.

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

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Plus, Conversations with Great Minds: Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh, Ph.D, Assistant Professor-University of Utah, Department of Family & Consumer Studies America / Ph.D. in Sociology-Stanford University / completed her postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford School of Medicine / Author of the new book, HOW THE OTHER HALF EATS: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

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