E218 - The Human Cost of Economic Sanctions w/ Mark Weisbrot

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Subscribe now⁠ to skip the ads. ⁠Get your limited edition "Robo Washington" poster now⁠. Subscribers get a 50% discount! Economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Mark Weisbrot joins the show to talk about economic sanctions and how they affect people’s lives. They discuss the effect of sanctions on migration flows, how the PR about them targeting governments and not civilians is false, how the international financial system and dollar hegemony allow the US to sanction so freely, whether sanctions on other countries actually benefit ordinary Americans, whether tariffs can be considered a form of sanctions, and more. Check out CEPR’s work for much more material on sanctions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:55.0	I'm Derek Davidson, joined as always by my friend and comrade Danny Bessner. And we are very pleased to welcome to the program.
2:01.2	Mark Weisbrot, he is an economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
2:07.4	And we're going to be doing some talking about sanctions.
2:10.3	So, Mark, first of all, thank you so much for coming on the program.
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