Ongoing Turmoil in the Financial Markets

Ongoing Turmoil in the Financial Markets

Guest host Steve Roberts and a panel of experts discuss the ongoing difficulties in the mortgage and credit markets. They will discuss the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and what measures Congress and the Federal Reserve are...

Guest host Steve Roberts and a panel of experts discuss the ongoing difficulties in the mortgage and credit markets. They will discuss the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and what measures Congress and the Federal Reserve are considering to help ailing financial institutions.

Guests

Dean Baker

co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of "Plunder & Blunder the Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy" (PoliPointPress)

Alan Fishbein

No longer at CFA - now at Federal Reserve

Director of Housing and Credit Policy, Consumer Federation of America.

Vincent Reinhart

is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; former director of the Federal Reserve Board's Division of Monetary Affairs.

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