[lbo-talk] C-Span

[Jordan Hayes]

Guilty-as-charged: channel surfing in a hotel is the worst.  But I just 
watched a pretty good panel put together by the Committee for a 
Responsible Budget at the National Press Club today.

Maya MacGuineas was the moderator.  Dean Baker, Martin Baily (former 
Clinton CEA Chairman), Mark Zandi Chief Economist from from Moody's 
economy.com, Rob Dugger Managing Director at Tudor (hedge fund), Tim 
Adams, Former Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs under 
Bush ... very interesting set of opinions.

One of the questions that came from the audience was: why not just form 
a US "Soverign Wealth Fund" ... :-)

One of them gave a pointer to this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/economy/08leonhardt.html

Summary: if we fix health care, we can fix the economy; if we don't fix 
health care, nothing else matters: we're screwed.

It's available to watch on the web:

rtsp://video1.c-span.org/project/economy/econ100808_budget.rm

/jordan