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Flanders and Dean Baker on Ed Schultz talking Debt Ceilings
July 30, 2011
Baker & Flanders talk debt ceilings and credit ratings and who made Standard and Poors our financial managers anyway? On the Ed Show with Ed Schultz, MSNBC, July 27.
Heather McGhee: Deficit Obsession is Depression-Maker
May 6, 2011
"Saying when the economy is at its weakest we're going to put into law that we can't spend more to pick ourselves up...that's a depression-maker," says Heather McGhee of Demos. But despite warnings from economists from all over, the government in Washington, Democrats and Republicans both, remain obsessed with the deficit.
Heather McGhee, Diana Henriques, and Tom Morello
May 5, 2011
"Saying when the economy is at its weakest we're going to put into law that we can't spend more to pick ourselves up...that's a depression-maker," says Heather McGhee of Demos. But despite warnings from economists from all over, the government in Washington, Democrats and Republicans both, remain obsessed with the deficit.
Mike Papantonio, Maude Barlow & Shannon Biggs, and Investing at Home
April 20, 2011
"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.
The F Word: US Lack of Investment is Destabilizing the World
April 20, 2011
Here in the US all we seem to hear about is deficits and debt. Yet even the countries that hold a lot of our debt are concerned for our lack of investment at home.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Bob Herbert, and Missed Connections
April 19, 2011
"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.
The F Word: Missed Connections from the Economic to the Social
April 19, 2011
Is there a journalism school tradition that teaches up-and-comers to put stories in little boxes? Half our job, in independent media, it seems to me, is putting the connections back.
Heather Boushey: Fiscal Policy Not Just Numbers on the Page
April 14, 2011
"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.
Heather Boushey, Deborah Small, and Cutting the Future
April 13, 2011
"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.
Richard Wolff & Karen Finney: Playing Politics with the Budget
April 13, 2011
The details of the compromise that finally kept the government open and made deep cuts to the federal budget for fiscal year 2011 are finally beginning to emerge--and they're not pretty. Millions and even billions from education, labor, the EPA--all for what economist Richard Wolff says is a negligible impact on the actual deficit.

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