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Eric Rauchway

Eric Rauchway

Eric Rauchway is the author of the Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction and Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America among other books. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

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Tamara Draut

Tamara Draut

As Vice President of Policy and Programs, Tamara Draut oversees the development and strategic direction of the organization’s core programs and communications, working closely with the President to expand Demos’ impact, influence and capacity. Previously, she served for seven years as the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos. She is the author of Strapped: ...

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Michael Konczal

Michael Konczal

Michael Konczal is a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, where he works on financial reform, unemployment, inequality and a progressive vision of the economy. His blog, Rortybomb, was named one of the 25 Best Financial Blogs by Time Magazine. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, Slate, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly’s Business Channel ...

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Robert Borosage

Robert Borosage

Robert L. Borosage is the Founder and President of the Institute for America’s Future and Co-Director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America’s Future. The organizations were launched by 100 prominent Americans to develop policies, message and issue campaigns to help forge an enduring majority for progressive change in America. Mr. Borosage writes widely ...

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Walker F. Todd

Walker F. Todd

Walker F. Todd, research fellow and conference organizer for the American Institute for Economic Research, lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland, and has been affiliated with AIER in one capacity or another since 1995. An instructor in the AIER Summer Fellowship Program, he teaches a course on the history and origins of competing theories ...

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Dean Baker

Dean Baker

Dean Baker is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian Unlimited (UK), the Huffington Post, TruthOut, and his blog, Beat the Press, features commentary on economic reporting. His analyses have appeared in ...

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Robert Reich

Robert Reich

Robert Bernard Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Reich is currently Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School ...

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Inimai M. Chettiar

Inimai M. Chettiar

Inimai M. Chettiar is the Director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. The Justice Program seeks to secure our nation’s promise of “equal justice for all” by creating an effective, rational and fair legal system. It proposes and works to enact data-driven policy and legal reforms aimed at two main goals: ending mass incarceration and closing the justice gap ...

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Anne Simpson

Anne Simpson

Anne Simpson serves as Senior Portfolio Manager and head of Corporate Governance at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the United States. With more than $235 billion in market assets, CalPERS provides retirement and health benefits to more than 1.6 million public employees, retirees and their families. Prior ...

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Arindrajit Dube

Arindrajit Dube

Arindrajit Dube is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst whose work focuses on labor economics, health economics and political economy. His core areas of research includes minimum wage policies, fiscal policy, income inequality, health reform, and the economics of conflict. Dube received his B.A. in Economics and M.A. in Development Policy ...

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Jim Chanos

Jim Chanos

Jim Chanos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates. As the largest exclusive short selling investment firm, Kynikos provides investment management services for domestic and offshore clients. Mr. Chanos opened Kynikos Associates in 1985 to implement investment strategies he had uncovered while beginning his Wall Street career as a financial analyst with Paine ...

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Barry C. Lynn

Barry C. Lynn

Barry Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global. Lynn’s groundbreaking writings on industrial interdependence among nations ...

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Brooksley Born

Brooksley Born

Ms. Born received her law degree from Stanford Law School where she was President of the Stanford Law Review and received the Outstanding Senior Award. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, she was a law clerk to Judge Henry W. Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Brooksley ...

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Frank Partnoy

Frank Partnoy

Professor Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and the Director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the complexities of modern finance and financial market regulation. He worked as a derivatives structurer at ...

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Michael Greenberger

Michael Greenberger

Michael Greenberger is professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he teaches a course entitled “Futures, Options and Derivatives.” Professor Greenberger has served as the Technical Advisor to the United Nations Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System; and as a member of the ...

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Pyromaniacs on the Potomac: The Problem With Obama’s Second Term

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Robert Reich
May 16, 2013

Six months into a second term and the Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi, the IRS’s invest

What the IRS should be scrutinizing

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Robert Kuttner

The tempest about the Tea Parties and the Internal Revenue Service is a gift for the Republican Party — and one that obsc

The Myth of a Perfect Orderly Liquidation Authority for Big Banks

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Simon Johnson

On Tuesday, with some fanfare, the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington rolled out a report, “Too Big to Fail: The Path t

Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street

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Dean Baker
May 15, 2013

As we move toward the fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008, people should be outraged that cutting Social

The Real Problem at the IRS

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Melanie Sloan

Everyone can agree it is unacceptable for the IRS to target particular organizations based on political ideology.

U.S. Supreme Court Examines Voting Rights in Two Cases

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Myrna Perez

‘SHELBY COUNTY, ALA. V. HOLDER’
Shelby County is a largely white suburb of Birmingham, Ala.

Germany’s Perverse Devotion to Austerity

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Robert Kuttner
May 14, 2013

ext summer will mark the 100th anniversary of the chain of diplomatic missteps that led to World War I.

“Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophecy”

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Robert Reich

Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place.

Gattopardo economics

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Thomas Palley

Gattopardo constitutes change that keeps things the same.

The Partial Faith and Dubious Credit Act

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Alan S. Blinder
May 13, 2013

Have you heard about HR 807, the “Full Faith and Credit Act,” passed last Thursday by the House of Representative