Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery with Menzie Chin, Professor of Public Affairs and Econom

The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is now in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Menzie Chinn explains the political and economic roots of this crisis, as well as its long-term effects, including political strategies that led to the debt and the continuing impact of the huge U.S. public debt in the ongoing slow recovery from the recession.