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The End of (or a New Beginning for) the American Dream?
March 26, 2009
William Apgar senior advisor, mortgage finance, US HUD
Karl Case professor, economics, Wellesley College
Lisa Lynch dean, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis

William Apgar, senior advisor for mortgage finance at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Karl Case, professor of economics at Wellesley College, discuss the factors that led us into our current economic morass and explore ideas for charting a course forward. We are a nation of debtors. How have our borrowing habits helped to build our economy and how have they weakened it? What does this mean for our future as a nation?

This discussion is moderated by Lisa Lynch, dean and professor of economics at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

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Banking & Finance | debt | economic crisis | economic market | lendors | stock market | toxic assets | Commercial | Corporate Ethics | Economics | Personal Finance | North American
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