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Dow Kicks Out ExxonMobil. So Is The Environment All Fixed Now?

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Follow on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/actdottv Julianna welcomes back recurring guest Dean Baker, macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss how starting this week, the oil giant ExxonMobil will no longer have a home on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And it’s about time. Not only are Big Oil companies like ...

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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 how starting this week, the oil giant ExxonMobil will no longer have a home on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And it’s about time. Not only are Big Oil companies like Exxon destroying the planet, but they’re no longer sound investments.


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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