Title: Who owns America?
Description: Features Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Mark Brenner, Kenneth Rogoff as well as students and skilled laborers speaking on the current status of the economy: the use of government debt to pay tax cuts; the 4 billion per-week war in Iraq; the off-shoring of mortgage debt to China; Wall Street's love of lean production and its negative impact on the manufacturing sector; the unwelcome necessity of student loans in the face of a faltering job market; consumerism based on overextended lines of credit; and the steadily falling median income.
Subjects: Financial crises, Debt, Economic conditions, Economic policy
Places: United States
Time periods: 2001-2009