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How to Unf★ck Finance

The financial sector produces a lot of wealth... and waste. Dean Baker explains why it's bloated and broken. Since the 1980s, the financial sector has been permitted to expand greatly, with deregulation and practically no taxes. This was all done in the hope of improving efficiency in the allocation of capital and the economy overall. But Dr. Baker shows that while the financial sector has grown, it has not fulfilled its promise - it has not improved productivity, it ties up and wastes a...

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How to Unf★ck CEO Pay

Dean Baker explains how CEO pay has increased enormously over the past four decades while shareholder returns have remained low. Weak corporate governance has allowed management to 'capture' corporate boards – and push through massive executive pay increases. Baker shows how in many cases their compensation has nothing to do with the return to shareholders. Baker breaks down the CEO pay scam into four parts: patterns of CEO pay, the alternative argument for CEO pay, evidence that CEOs...

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Meet the Mailers | Episode 15 | "Dean Baker: Choosing Between Digital & Offset Printing"

In this episode, I talked with Dean Baker, CEO of the Phoenix Group of Companies, a single-source provider of print solutions from concept to completion. Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 0:41 - Dean’s origin story - how he came to be involved in direct mail 3:11 - The services Phoenix Group of companies provides 7:33 - Things marketers should keep in mind when choosing between digital vs offset printing 11:12 - How can print be sustainable? 14:53 - Some good ways to keep postage and paper...

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How to Unf★ck America | Trailer

This series is all about solutions. Learn more at http://unf-ckamerica.com Over the last four decades, the US economy has done quite well for the top 1%, but it has been stagnant for most Americans. This was not an accident, nor the natural workings of the market and certainly not an inevitability. US policies have been deliberately structured since 1980 to redistribute income upwards. In other words, the system has been rigged. Dean Baker shows us how public policy can be deployed to...

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How to Unf★ck Intellectual Property

Dean Baker tells the dirty secret of the great billionaires of the modern age: they wouldn’t exist without intellectual property (IP), that is the copyright and patent monopolies guaranteed to private actors by the government. IP laws have been expanded and strengthened in recent years, making patent & copyright monopolies longer and stronger and enabling the vast fortunes of billionaires in computers, software, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment etc. Baker diagnoses the role of...

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Dean Marilyn Baker’s Annual Address

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