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Is the New Trade Agreement President Trump Signed a Re-branded NAFTA? And We talk Populist Movements with Professor Barry Eichengreen. Plus Trump administration wants to re-negotiate Coordinated Operation Agreement for the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta

0:08 – A New NAFTA?

Yesterday, President Trump announced a new Trade Agreement with Mexico leaving Canada out. A dig deep into the agreement and where it’s going with guests Lori Wallach (@WallachLori), Director and Founder of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch  and Laura Carlsen is Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy (@CIPonline)

         

0:34 – A deep dive into anti-trade sentiments and other forms of populism with

(@B_Eichengreen) professor of economics and political science at UC Berkeley; his latest book is The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

 

1:08 Trump administration wants to re-negotiate Coordinated Operation Agreement for the Delta. We talk to Greg Gartrell, retired Assistant General Manager at the Contra Costa Water District, where he managed Delta projects; now an adjunct fellow at the Water Center of the Public Policy Institute of California. And Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta (@RestoretheDelta)

 

1:34  SB100 would move California to 100% sustainable energy, to learn more we talk to Laura Wisland is a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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