From Washington DC: Dean Baker

The economist Dean Baker is Co-Director and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, European labor markets, among others. He is the author of several books including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer, Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People, and the United States Since 1980.


Baker analyzes in this program the economic situation of the United States, the inequality generated by the actual economic system, the economic politics that Donald Trump has taken during his first year as President of the US and makes a perspective for the rest of Trump's administration.