‘Trump or No Trump, Wall Street Will Continue Trying to Dictate US Policy’
SputnikNews.com
09.11.2016
On November 8, Donald Trump came seemingly out of nowhere to win the presidency of the United States. However, according to financial expert Ernst Wolff, Trump’s revolution probably will not break Wall Street’s control over America, even if its roots lie in social upheaval and the decline of the American dream.
Speaking to Sputnik Deutschland, Wolff, the author of the book ‘Pillaging the World: The History and Politics of the IMF’, explained that the election result “could best be explained by the social circumstances in the United States. In the last 40 years, the US has faced a decline like few other countries. The average incomes of the middle and working classes have declined. Infrastructure is crumbling. The country is $20 trillion in debt.”
In the meantime, “there is nothing like this in the mainstream media; and that angers people. American TV shows that everything is always in order. But when one looks at the situation in the cities, there is a great deal of poverty. This rage has pushed people to vote for Donald Trump.”
Asked why millions of poor Americans have decided to vote for a billionaire to solve their economic problems, Wolff explained that “in America, the idea of the American Dream still prevails. People still believe that it’s possible to go from being a dishwasher to a millionaire. The poor are the ones hanging on to this dream.”
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