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What if every new service contract you've signed secretly stripped away your right to sue? Senior Economist and CEPR co-founder Dean Baker speaks with Brendan Ballou, former federal prosecutor and ...

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World renown economist explains how pay raises should be done sector by sector and with wage floors, ensuring all workers get fair and reasonable compensation for their labor.

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Top economist argues full employment and worker mobility is required to make the market work better. #workersrights #USPolitics #economics #mostlyeconomics

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Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge economist and author, joins Dean Baker to discuss how South Korea went from one of the world's poorest countries to an economic powerhouse. They also dig into Trump's tarif...

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We should worry about job losses in general, not AI job losses.

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Dean Baker sits down with Ed Zitron, CEO of national Media Relations and Public Relations company EZPR and one of the most prominent voices sounding the alarm on the AI bubble. They dig into Nvidia...

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Fossil fuels and deforestation are driving climate change. But clean energy investment, stronger pollution rules, and zero-deforestation commitments across both public and private sectors will make...

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88 profitable corporations paid $0 in taxes last year and that is by design. Our tax code favors wealth over work, lets corporations off the hook, and why money still calls the shots in politics.

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The US tax code is not broken. It is working exactly as the wealthy designed it. Dean Baker sits down with Amy Hanauer, Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, to expos...

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Today's episode is about the US-Israel war on Iran, its legitimacy and the economic impacts on people in the US. Our guest, Matt Duss, is the Executive VP at the Center for International Policy, fo...

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The wealthiest Americans once paid a top tax rate of 91% and the economy thrived. Today that rate is 37% and billion dollar corporations pay an average of just 13% thanks to loopholes and decades o...

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Right-wing billionaires are buying up local TV news networks and a federal regulator is helping them do it. In this week's episode, Dean Baker and Milo Vassallo, executive director of the Media and...

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Season 2, Episode 1: In today's episode, Dean Baker discusses the economic shocks from starting a war with Iran with renowned macroeconomist Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist at New Century Advisors. ...

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The winners and losers in the tariff scheme are easy to guess, but we explain who's to blame and why this should never have happened in the first place. Dean Baker explains.

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The winners and losers in the tariff scheme are easy to guess, but we explain who's to blame and why this should never have happened in the first place. Senior Economist and CEPR Co-Founder Dean B...

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Low- and middle-income countries are straddled with crippling public debt, hamstringing efforts to combat the climate crisis. At this week's IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, CEPR is calling attenti...

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Since assuming office in January, Honduran President Nasry Asfura has tightened relations with Trump and Netanyahu, persecuted political opponents, ushered in austerity measures, and rejoined ISDS....

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Colombian president Gustavo Petro announced his country's plans to withdraw from the investor-state dispute settlement system (ISDS). On this week's "From D.C. Across the Americas," CEPR researc

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Conditions in #Cuba are rapidly deteriorating as Trump's de facto oil blockade on the island brings life to a halt. After traveling to Cuba last week, CEPR senior research associate Michael Galant...

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