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Podcast: Mornings with Pat Kreitlow
Episode: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Economy (Hour 2)
Description: For many, it’s little more than a lost freighter at the bottom of Lake Superior, but author and former legislator Tom Nelson sees the Edmund Fitzgerald as perhaps the most apt metaphor of the late 20th century — an economy that put shareholder profits ahead of workers’ prosperity, and empty populist promises from candidates in both parties. We’ll talk to him about his new book that draws those parallels.
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