About the Program
A discussion on the current economic situation with Amity Shlaes, syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. This program originally aired live and includes viewer's calls and emails.
Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and syndicated columnist for Bloomberg. Ms. Shlaes is s former columnist for the Financial Times and a former member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of several books, including The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It and The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. For more information, visit amityshlaes.com.
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Dean Baker
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He is the author of numerous books, including Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy and False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. Mr. Baker's writing has appeared in several publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, and The Washington Post. He currently writes columns for the American Prospect, the Guardian, and Truthout.org. For more information, visit prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press.
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