Mostly Economics

Dean Baker sits down with CEPR climate analyst Matt Sedlar to unpack how Trump’s cuts to FEMA and NOAA are leaving states, especially poorer Republican ones in Appalachia, dangerously exposed.

Episode 41: Algernon Austin, director of CEPR’s Race and Economic Justice Program, joins Dean Baker to examine how the Trump administration is reversing black economic progress through DOGE cuts, military purges, weakened affirmative action, and the Supreme Court’s assault on voting rights. They also discuss solutions, including a national jobs guarantee.

Episode 40: On today’s episode, Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein reflect on Alan Greenspan’s legacy, from his bold full employment experiment in the 1990s to his failure to address financial bubbles. 

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.

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.

Mostly Economics Episode 36: Ed Zitron, CEO of national Media Relations and Public Relations company EZPR and leading AI skeptic, joins Dean Baker to break down why the AI investment boom looks more like a bubble than a revolution.

Dean Baker sits down with Amy Hanauer, Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, to expose how loopholes like carried interest were deliberately built to protect fortunes and make working people foot the bill.

 Today’s episode is about the US-Israel war on Iran, its legitimacy and the economic impacts on people in the US.  Our guest, Matt Duss, is the Executive Vice President at the Center for International Policy, former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, and co-host of Un-Diplomatic Podcast.

Dean speaks with Milo Vassallo, Executive Director of the Media and Democracy Project, about combating news deserts and the power of citizen journalism.