Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director for the Barack Obama Presidential campaign, discusses his candidate's position on the economy.
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Jason Furman is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is Director of the Hamilton Project. Furman is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Noam Scheiber has been with The New Republic since August, 2000. He holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University and a B.S. in math from Tulane University. In addition to his work at TNR, Scheiber has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC and NPR.
Great Question by the interviewer trying to get at the truth... but unfortunately just another partisan democrat comment blaming the republicans, when the real problem is the fact that our government officials both republicans and democrats are addicted to the percieved free money being provided by the criminal federal reserve central bank. The reality is that our economic system, after 90 years of fiat money under the fed along with governments unchecked appetite to borrow has finaly created the disaster we are now seeing unfolding on wall stree and across the nation. Why don't the people running for office talk about the important issues. Like the constitution and how far we have deviated from it?