As the result of Tea Party influence, the current charter on an eighty-year old institution that has supported more than $567 billion of U.S. exports may not be renewed come September. The Export-Import Bank of the United States, usually reauthorized on a bipartisan bases, is on the chopping block, caught in the cross-hairs of those who view it as ineffective, usurping the role of the private sector, interfering with the free play of market forces, engaging in crony capitalism, and picking winners and losers in the market. Listen in as Between the Synapse brings together a former member of the
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