Nicole Gelinas

What will it take for the economic recovery to be over? Nicole Gelinas joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why the economy will not improve until bad consumer debts, like mortgages and credit cards, have been dealt with.

Will Obama’s jobs plan encourage small businesses to hire? Nicole Gelinas joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether Obama’s jobs plan will create jobs, or just create more deficit spending.

Nicole Gelinas joins Jim Blasingame to report on the way a portion of Liberty Bond funds meant for reconstruction of the World Trade Center site were used for other projects.

Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn't stop, precipitating a depression.

As Gelinas explains in this richly detailed book, adequate regulation of financial firms and markets is a prerequisite for free-market capitalism -- not a barrier to it.

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