The Market Meltdown: The Bailout, the Economics of Inequality and the Election

The Market Meltdown: The Bailout, the Economics of Inequality and the Election
with Barbara Ehrenreich, Dean Baker, Jared Bernstein and Chuck Collins

A discussion of economic inequality, market instability and the 2008 presidential race.

View this engaging discussion with four progressive economic thinkers. Why is our economy in the current crisis? What was the role of the housing bubble? Is the bailout proposed by the Bush Administration going to address the problem? What should we do?

Barbara Ehrenreich, IPS senior scholar and New York Times Bestselling Author. Barbara’s current book is This Land is Your Land: Reports from a Divided Nation.

Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic Policy Research. Dean has been actively promoting progressive responses to the Wall Street bailout. Author of The Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use Government to Get Richer and Stay Richer.

Jared Bernstein, Director, Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute; Jared’s latest book is Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries).

Moderator: Chuck Collins, senior scholar at IPS and coordinating of the Working Group on Extreme Inequality (www.extremeinequality.org). Author of The Moral Measure of the Economy.

The Working Group on Extreme Inequality