Last week we debated which policy approach will produce robust, sustainable economic growth in the US and Europe: austerity policy & trickle-down economics versus “bubble up” economics with broadly shared prosperity. This week former White House advisor Charles Kolb & Nate Loewentheil of Yale return to debate specific policy recommendations from the Lowentheil(Jacob) Hacker report “Prosperity Economics: Building an Economy for All” and from Kolb’s former organization, the Committee for Economic Development, the nonpartisan, business-led think tank. What policies will produce a healthy private
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