Market Meltdown: The Bailout, the Economics of Inequality and the Election

A discussion of economic inequality, market instability and the 2008 presidential race.

With the meltdown on Wall Street, will the growing polarization of wealth and income become part of the election debate? The last time inequality was this extreme was 1928, on the eve of the Great Depression. What are ways that inequality contributes to economic instability? What practical political program to reverse these inequalities can expect from the Presidential candidates?

Institute for Policy Studies

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