December 25, 2024

Part One: Dean Baker is a senior economist for the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He joins us to talk about the economy and how it’s been rigged to create income inequality, and how that’s evolved over the decades. He’s the author of the book, “Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer.”

Part Two: Our weekly visit with PoliSci Professor, Dr. Steffen Schmidt of Iowa State U. Topics include: Putin’s recent election, Cambridge Analytica, Stormy, gerrymandering and lots more.