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A 🔥 podcast about who gets what and why in the economy with zillionaire class traitor Nick Hanauer. Listen (ad-free) wherever you get your podcasts.

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@theameilee.bsky.social nails it: when exploitation is profitable, even the good companies lose. That’s why it’s on governments to build markets that don’t profit from abuse.

🎧 Listen to how smarter trade policy can level the playing field—and make decency a competitive advantage.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Building a pro-worker economy shouldn’t be partisan. Investing in clean energy and good jobs should be a red, white, and blue issue—but for today’s GOP, nothing matters more than cutting taxes for the rich.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
When companies outsource and subcontract their supply chains, they also outsource accountability.

🎧 Hear @theameilee.bsky.social explain why enforcing labor rights across global supply chains isn’t just moral—it’s economic common sense.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Global trade shouldn’t come at the cost of basic human rights.

🎧 Listen now to hear how centering workers in trade policy can build a stronger and more equitable global economy.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The U.S. needs a prosperous Mexico — not just a source of cheap labor. Stability, security, and shared growth are impossible with deep inequality between neighbors. North America’s future has to be cooperative — not extractive.

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October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Mexican–American auto supply chain isn’t about offshoring — it’s about collaboration and modernization.

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October 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Mexico did everything the textbook said — liberalized, opened to trade, integrated with the U.S., and still ended up stuck in no man’s land, de-industrialized, and falling further behind.

This is why real-world economics ≠ theory.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Trade economists promised North America would dominate China + Europe if Mexico provided labor and the United States and Canada brought capital and innovation. That was the theory.

What actually happened reshaped politics across all three countries.

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October 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If someone could let the White House know, by making imports more expensive with new tariffs, all you’ve done is actually made things worse for people by increasing their taxes.

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October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Globalization wasn’t workers competing—it was elites extracting.

When profits got funneled to wealthy shareholders instead of into workers' paychecks, everyone lost.

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October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Every time you spend a dollar, it ripples through the global economy. Everything we do—work, save, buy—links us together.

That’s not abstract—That’s the reality of a truly global economy.

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October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Trade debates still obsess over steel and tariffs, while the U.S. quietly runs a $700 billion digital trade surplus. That’s the size of all of France’s exports, but traditional trade stats don’t show it.

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October 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Prosperity follows complexity. Societies that build sophisticated things thrive. Those that don’t—stagnate.

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October 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM