The Latest on Efforts to Address the Financial Crisis

The Latest on Efforts to Address the Financial Crisis

The House passed the $700 billion financial rescue plan Friday. Diane and her guests discuss what's in legislation, what's missing, and what effect it may have on the nation's troubled economy.

The House passed the $700 billion financial rescue plan Friday. Diane and her guests discuss what's in legislation, what's missing, and what effect it may have on the nation's troubled economy.

Guests

Jared Bernstein

Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser for Vice President Biden and Executive Director of the Vice President's Middle Class Task Force.

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)

Greg Ip

U.S. economics editor, "The Economist"

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