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Look Who Is Paying For The Scam In Texas! Dean Baker Joins

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Julianna welcomes back recurring guest Dean Baker, Macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss the disaster in Texas and who is going to pay for it. And how as other disasters pile up in the US, like wildfires, rapidly intensifying hurricanes, droughts, floods, tornadoes, deep freezes, heat waves, and related pandemics... will there come a point when the US economy won’t be able to handle it? Dean Baker co-founded The Center for Economic and Policy Research in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich

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Julianna welcomes back recurring guest Dean Baker, Macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss the disaster in Texas and who is going to pay for it. And how as other disasters pile up in the US, like wildfires, rapidly intensifying hurricanes, droughts, floods, tornadoes, deep freezes, heat waves, and related pandemics... will there come a point when the US economy won’t be able to handle it?

Dean Baker co-founded The Center for Economic and Policy Research in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. His blog, "Beat the Press," provides commentary on economic reporting.

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Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

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