That deep, deep research that goes to the bones of our country and unearths the things we are not interested in talking about. So im deeply thankful to richard and i am paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. The second part of this is there is an notion i have been doing whatever i can to reverse this. We have conceived of ourselves as a country with a racial problem. Underneath of that is there notion is that there are pure races in this country, a white race from europe, a black race from africa, and asian race from asia a latino race that hails from, i dont quite know where. Increasingly in arab and muslim race. This is the path we are going down and what this language does is obscure the fact that race and racism in america is a done thing, that the name comes after the attempt to take something from somebody and what that allows us to do is feel like we are some sort of divine, god in with some sort of divine, god made problem when we are in fact dealing wit
This discussion was held by videoconference. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening depending on where you are. Thank you for joining us. Im Vice President of the Global Economy and Development Programs at brookings Global Economy. Disrupting billions of life and jeopardizing progress. The Global Economic process which relates to todays conversation from a five of present and global gdp in 2020. This is the cheapest global recession since world war ii. Its a report defined by fundamental drivers of longterm growth including investment which would slow capital formation. Beyond the headline Economic Growth number, the pandemic is having a proportionate effect lower Income Countries in a way the economy isd dominated most limited ability to adjust to covid related measures such as confinement. Similarly, most vulnerable population in the economy are more exposed. The pandemic is likely to leave a legacy of water inequality between and within countries. Disruptive of the pandemic f
Tonight we will encourage you to ask questions which many of you already have. The portion of the event will be dedicated to questions where people have already asked questions and you can vote on those you are most interested in hearing the authors answer. And last you can see us but we cannot see you so feel free to relax and get comfortable. Without further ado, it is my honor to welcome the professor of economics at the State University and contributing columnist to discuss her book. We are also looking to be joined by the Senior Reporter at the post where he covers congress, the white house Economic Policy and discussing the book the price of peace money, democracy and the life of john maynard keynes. Hello, everybody. Nice to be with you. I want to start by talking with stephanie about her book called the deficit myth. A when i listen to the economic commentary there is a talk about the debt and deficit. There was a visit from the link in the project that was antitrump republican
Your question widgeon at the bottom, you can see more people are really ask questions. And you can answer questions and you can those on the questions that you are most interested in hearing your author sensor. And lastly, just a reminder to everyone that you busiest but cannot see you. So feel free to relax and accountable. So without any further ado, is my daughters to introduce stephanie kelton. She said that State University of new york right and columnist. Modern terry. Tonight were also lucky to be joined by Patrick Carter who is a senior reporter. It was congress, the white house and economic policies. Tonight will be discussing his book, the crisis piece, money democracy and the life of john. Without any further ado, heres zachary and stephanie. Hi everybody it is really nice to be with you and i want to start by talking to stephanie about her book which is called the deficit myth. Stephanie la care about is when i listen to the commentaries and talk about debt and deficits. Th
Economy to be reimagined and reconfigured in the way of a Global Pandemic that is shut down the daytoday operations of the economy. So that is a challenge that first order is to migrate my own job so the first person i thought of they happily complied dean baker senior economist for Economic Policy research the most recent book is called rigged and one of the reasons i admire as we go tonight as a fierce critic of the status quo and intellectual property. And its an ebook form also joining us is the staff writer kate i believe it is working on a book manuscript now and recently contributed the teacher is hours . So i want to thank you both for taking part in two dates discussion and the spirit of economic revival. If you are engaged of the topics of tonights discussion with the recent appearance on the podcast the politics of everything and reimagining the economy. Also to be a part of this discussion and its going live on facebook right now. And thats all i got. So to start with a ver