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How Globalism is Rigged To Make the Rich Richer w/Dean Baker

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The Big Picture Interview w/Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. President Obama is gearing up for a big lame-duck session fight for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Supporters and opponents of this deal call it “free trade” – ...

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The Big Picture Interview w/Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. President Obama is gearing up for a big lame-duck session fight for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Supporters and opponents of this deal call it “free trade” – are they both wrong?



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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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