From Boom to Bust: Insights into the Current Economic Downturn

This is the third of a four-part lecture series designed to better inform an educated lay audience about whats at stake in the economic downturn. What do we need to know and understand about economic history, macroeconomics, and proposed policies to guide our own behavior as citizens, investors, and consumers?

Speaker: Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy

Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI @Berkeley) http://www.olli.berkeley.edu/

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[Malinyc]

hmm downturn sounds a little harsh a wee bit can we call it the biggest fraud by Wall St ever which will soon be topped by another one ?

[j4ck2234]

Come on, austrian theory totally owns that guy's analysis.

+all that keynesian stuff is nonsense / read War, Depression and Cold war by Robert Higgs about that WW2 stimulus bs.