Shifting Targets

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 19, 2011

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses how our economy is fundamentally shifting in a way that he says is similar to the economic shift leading up to the Great Depression. Plus: the view from on the ground in Iraq post-U.S. troop withdrawal; New York Times columnist Joe Nocera discusses news about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—and where the GOP race figures in; and a Merriam-Webster lexicographer on the word of 2011.

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