Episode 39: What if every new service contract you’ve signed secretly stripped away your right to sue? Senior Economist and CEPR co-founder Dean Baker speaks with Brendan Ballou, former federal prosecutor and founder of the Public Integrity Project, about his new book When Companies Run the Courts.
Reducing wealth inequality requires more than taxing billionaires; strong public services and democratic reforms are more effective at limiting concentrated economic and political power.
Rising import prices provide further evidence that US businesses and consumers, not foreign exporters, are bearing the cost of Trump’s tariffs, adding to inflationary pressures.
The Trump administration faced another setback in court — this time over ending environmental justice grant programs.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts Medicaid to deliver tax breaks for the wealthy. But there are ways that states can minimize the damage to vulnerable communities.
Trump’s war with Iran achieved little beyond terms already contained in the Obama-era nuclear agreement while exposing strategic failures and imposing significant human and economic costs.
Rising fuel prices and uncertainty linked to Trump’s war with Iran have accelerated global EV adoption, making China the biggest beneficiary of the resulting surge in demand.
Instead of focusing on zoning and deregulation, a true abundance agenda would weaken patent and copyright monopolies that raise costs, concentrate wealth, and limit access to medicine, technology, and housing.
New inflation data point to mounting economic pressures linked to Trump administration policies, while the European experience raises fresh questions about the need for Section 230 immunity for major social media platforms.
Economist Arindrajit Dube joins Dean Baker to discuss his book The Wage Standard, examining why the federal minimum wage has stagnated for over a generation, how outsourcing reshaped worker pay, and why sectoral wage standards may be the key to rebuilding middle-class wages.
