Robin Brooks
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308 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Aug
Robin Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, can we just get back to coal?
You know, it's like in Detroit, can we just make cars in America again?
That sensibility is very strong.
Everything's going to change.
I mean, Shell officials stood up and said, when we turn the lights on at that facility, you'll never recognize your community again.
If the argument was that this was going to be a rising tide that lifted all boats, a lot of boats are doing worse off than they were in 2012.
A lot of the economics research indicates that small businesses are actually and local businesses are actually the number one job creator in the country anywhere you go.
Not a single person has gotten wealthy as a result of that.
But we've managed to create a local business and employ folks.
It's not a $14 or $15 billion investment.
When you start to stack these things up piece by piece by piece by piece by piece, his operation, modest as it is, generates north of a million dollars a year in economic output for Beaver County.
So, as you know, a bunch of European countries got together back in the 90s, and they decided to form a common currency.
The Euro was formed and began in 1999.
There were a bunch of countries that did not join the Euro when it was created.
The UK, where I'm guessing you have a little bit of a connection.
And then Sweden, obviously, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary.
So...
It's not, first of all, any kind of outlier status to not be in the Euro.
Countries at the time had referenda on whether joining the Euro was a good idea.
Sweden did one in 2003, and it was rejected by a margin of 56% of the vote was against joining the Euro.
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