Free Trade: Who Wins and Who Loses

To the Point

KCRW

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4.4 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

NAFTA, CAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership are complex, economic agreements. Even economists disagree about who wins and who loses, so it's a challenge for voters to know which candidate is right or wrong. We rebroadcast Warren Olney's conversation about “free trade” and political trade-offs.

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0:00.0	Join left-right and center host Bob Shear for his new podcast, Shear Intelligence.
0:06.4	The twice-monthly podcast features thinkers and trendsetters in conversation with one of political journalism's leading voices.
0:13.9	Through the show's unique and sometimes surprising perspectives, you'll get up to speed on the current issues shaping the Beltway and the world.
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0:27.3	From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.
0:35.2	Free trade and presidential politics.
0:41.3	Hello again. I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.
0:45.4	A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.
0:47.9	NAFTA, CAFTA, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership aren't really about free trade after all.
0:53.7	They are complex economic agreements negotiated
0:56.5	in secret, with lobbyists for powerful interest groups making sure they get in on the action.
1:02.1	Economists disagree about who wins and who loses, so it's a challenge for voters to know which
1:07.4	candidate is right or wrong. We'll hear about the role of free trade in this year's race for the White House.
1:14.2	Today's talking point, India's very young population, is struggling with a very old tradition,
1:20.5	the caste system.
1:22.2	First, here's the news.
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1:59.9	I'm Josh Barrow, sitting in for Warren Only, back with To the Point.
2:04.5	NAFTA, CAFTA, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership are complex economic agreements.
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