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The Dig: Inflation Politics with Tim Barker

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Is the Workers' Bargaining Power a Problem for the System?

Paul Waldman: EPI restates a premise that's so hostile to everything people on the left and labor are fighting for. He says in cases where inflation is wage related even though it's driven by capitalist profit protecting response to wage increases not directly by wage increases what should the left position be? "We need to start thinking about making price and profit the object of public policy"

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