Rob Johnson on the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Necessary Awakening

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Rob Johnson on the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Necessary Awakening

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Economist Rob Johnson, the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, speaks with us about the massive wealth disparity that’s fracturing America, blind spots in our political and economic systems, and finding a way out of this “extreme disrepair.”

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