How much infrastructure for how much debt?
The Obama stimulus plan included significant infrastructure spending, but critics on the right think it was a waste, critics on the left think it wasn't enough. We discuss whether greater infrastructure spending can be a job creator, or a debt creator.
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New New Deal
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Michael Grunwald, senior national correspondent for Time Magazine and the author of The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, writes in his new book about how the stimulus package was far more effective than acknowledged.
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