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Decoding the Economy: Main Street to Wall Street
October 8, 2008
Jared Bernstein program director, Economic Policy Institute

Jared Bernstein decodes the workings of the economy, translating the jargon of Wall Street into the language of Main Street. Bernstein, senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, argues that economics should be more than a tool for the nation's elite. He asks how Wall Street and Main Street are linked and how we can use economics to organize American society to provide for the needs of both.

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