Episode

5/13 David Dayen: The Ten Biggest Lies About TPP

May 13, 2015

Journalist David Dayen, explains how the foreclosure crisis is still hurting Americans. Does the ongoing crisis in inequality explain the failure of Fast Track trade authority to pass the Senate? What’s in the TPP and why its awful. President Obama’s war against Elizabeth Warren. Why Washington is wired to pass terrible trade deals. Why TPP isn’t really a trade deal. The lies and old rhetoric the Obama Administration is using to sell TPP. Why TPP will increase medical prices. The TPP job creation myth. TPP and China and what happens next after the defeat Fast Track in the Senate.

On The Fun Half:  Chris Christie spends taxpayer money on shopping splurges, parties and wing talker Howie Carr goes after Chris Christie for proposing Social Security cuts. Also your calls and IMs.

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