Chris Hayes Podcast : Trade Wars, and how you might fix them, with Lori Wallach

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Chris Hayes has a podcast called "Why is this Happening ?", and this weeks guest is Lori Wallach (Director at Public Citizen’s Global Trade). If you want to get a clearer understanding of the pros and cons, listen to this podcast. I highly recommend it.

Episode Info

What was so bad about NAFTA? If you ask the President, it was one of the worst deals ever made. A common 2016 campaign riff was him promising to bring jobs back, get companies to return production to the U.S., and scrap NAFTA. This anti-trade campaigning caught the attention of many voters struggling to find work. Interestingly, it also got the attention of progressive trade critics on the left who had also been calling to renegotiate NAFTA for decades. Lori Wallach, Director at Public Citizen’s Global Trade, explains how their critique of corporate-rigged trade policies managed to align in some surprising ways with the President’s nationalist trade agenda. And while NAFTA 2.0 shows some progress, there are still a lot of improvements they want to see made. But that was only the beginning, ‘phase 1’ as Wallach puts it. Now, it has to be chewed over by a newly Democratic House and phase 2 begins.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/why-is-this-happening/e/58193386?autoplay=true