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GRITtv: Dean Baker: Government Spending Didn’t Cause Crisis

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Dean Baker reminds Republicans (and President Obama) that it wasn’t government spending that caused the current economic crisis–but it will probably take government spending to get out of it. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Dean Baker reminds Republicans (and President Obama) that it wasn’t government spending that caused the current economic crisis–but it will probably take government spending to get out of it.



Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.



Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

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