Weekends: Big Pharma Is Killing Us w/ Dean Baker
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🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Dean Baker, economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, joins us to explain what we should do with Big Pharma (hint: get rid of them). We also cover the ongoing immigration crisis and how bosses rob us through denying overtime pay.
Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from September 24, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome to Weekends. We're your host, Anna Casparian, Nando Villa, |
| 0:22.7 | kale Brooks on the ones in two's playing the funky beats. And we're going to have an awesome |
| 0:27.9 | guest today, Dean Baker, an economist, and someone who's really an expert on any economic |
| 0:35.8 | related question you could possibly ask him. We'll be joining us later in the show. I'm super |
| 0:39.0 | excited to have him on. Nando, I remember booking him when I was a guest booker and never |
| 0:46.3 | like, this is like early years, 2007, 2008, listening to his answers on economic questions |
| 0:53.2 | and not really fully grasping what he was talking about. Now I'm excited to be able to |
| 0:57.4 | like ask him questions about so many different things. You shared a crazy story today regarding |
| 1:03.3 | cryptocurrency and China. I think, you know, maybe we can ask him about that. Definitely |
| 1:07.9 | to, you know, whole host of other issues today. I don't want to claim credit for that because |
| 1:13.6 | kale shared it. And I don't want to, I don't want to do it. Sorry. Yeah. It's okay. I mean, |
| 1:21.2 | it's fun to erase fail, but yeah, he shared it in the chat to be fair. But yeah, definitely |
| 1:26.7 | I'd ask about that because it seems like big news. I mean, that's always been the threat |
| 1:35.2 | to cryptocurrency is that governments fundamentally on some fundamental level cannot allow cryptocurrencies |
| 1:42.4 | to exist. Like one of the thing, the two monopolies that governments need to have in order |
| 1:46.4 | to survive are monopolies on violence and currency. And if you give up one of those, then |
| 1:53.5 | the state kind of evaporates. So yeah, interesting to ask about that. Yeah, absolutely. We're going |
| 2:01.1 | to be talking about, you know, AOC's moment on the House floor yesterday in regard to the |
| 2:07.0 | Iron Dome funding bill, a lot to unpack there. Nanda, what do you have coming up for your decode? |
| 2:13.5 | I'm talking about Haiti and the migrant situation at the border and the situation back in Haiti as |
| 2:19.6 | well. A lot of ins, a lot of outs. I mean, it's a really horrible situation. And yeah, you'd be |
| 2:26.9 | surprised that the Democratic Party and the Joe Biden administration are not handling it too well. |
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