Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner talks about his book "Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?" 

Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Columbia University professor, and author of Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy  joins Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, senior fellow at Demos, and author of A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power, and the Struggle to Control our Economic Future  to discuss the demise of the president's deficit commission's proposal.

The oil industry, Wall Street, and NASA all have this in common: very smart people have the freedom to take huge risks – and those same very smart people are the only ones who can fix it when things go wrong.

Joshua Gordon, policy director at The Concord Coalition, and Bob Kuttner, co-founder of The American Prospect, discuss the ballooning national debt and its impact on stimulus efforts.

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The gap is growing between America’s rich and poor. Economic critic Robert Kuttner says the U.S. government must take a more active role in closing that gap. Kuttner is editor of American Prospect and his new book is The Squandering of America.

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Some activists charge that AIDS has fallen off the media map. And, they say, this puts the public in danger. Is this so? Also: How accurate and informative are new budget reports?