Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with Trump's destruction of the U.S. economy, and in particular the dollar,

which has fallen 10% since Trump's return, with gold surging up almost 90% since Trump's second inauguration, as the world begins to worry that the person in charge of the United States

is that

incoherent fool who rambled on like a lunatic at Davos.

Joining us is Dean Baker, senior economist, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy

Research, a progressive economic think tank based in Washington, D.C.

He's the author of Rigged how globalization and the rules of the modern economy

was structured to make the rich richer, and he writes the popular economics blog,

Beath the Press, where he has an article we will discuss,

Doing Well by Doing Good, Dump Your American Stocks.

Then we'll look into the fight over state preemption of federal AI

regulation as the White House AI and Crypto Tsar with the backing of Silicon Valley billionaires

puts together a $100 million super PAC to target Democratic candidates who are calling for stricter

regulation of AI. Joining us is Brad Carson, co-icter regulation of AI.

Joining us is Brad Carson, co-founder and President of Americans for Responsible Innovation, and

the University of Tulsa's 21st President.

In 2015, President Barack Obama appointed him acting under Secretary of Defense for Personnel

and Readiness at the United States Department of Defense,

and prior to that, he served as the Undersecretary of the U.S. Army,

and from 2001 to 2005, Brad served two terms as a U.S. congressman representing Oklahoma's second district.

He is now launching a Democratic Super

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