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“Christmas Presents for Bankers” with Dean Baker and Jesse Jackson

Link to full segment: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/30/christmas_presents_for_bankers Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 30, 2009 As 2009 comes to a close, we take a look at the state of the U.S. economy with economist dean Baker and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. After throwing the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression and bringing the whole sector to the edge of collapse, the financial industry has used its political power to succor itself back to life, Baker writes....

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Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research

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Dean Baker – The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker discussed and signed copies of his new book, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy. For the second time this decade, the U.S. economy is sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. The most recent calamity will lead to a downturn deeper and longer than the stock market crash of 2001. Plunder and Blunder chronicles the growth and collapse of the stock and housing bubbles and explains how policy blunders and greed...

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Book TV: Dean Baker “Plunder and Blunder”

Mr. Baker discusses the growth and "predictable" collapse of the housing and stock market bubbles and is critical of both the Reagan and Clinton administrations. He details the mistakes of Alan Greenspan and Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. He offers suggestions for preventing additional financial crises and advocates massive government spending to combat the recession.

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