The New Republic's Noam Scheiber interviews Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director for the Obama campaign. They discuss the challenges that face an economy as large and complex as the US economy, and draw contrasts between the economic policies of John McCain and Barak Obama.
Bio
Jason Furman
Jason Furman is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director the Hamilton Project, an initiative aimed at developing policy solutions to promote shared growth and opportunity. Furman is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has conducted research and policy work in a wide range of economic policy areas, including fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, Social Security, and monetary policy.
In 2005, CQ named him one of the five Social Security analysts who "exert more influence over the Social Security debate than any other individuals outside government."
Noam Scheiber
Noam Scheiber has been with The New Republic since August, 2000. He holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University and a B.S. in math from Tulane University. In addition to his work at TNR, Scheiber has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC and NPR.