The Financial Meltdown and the Future of American Politics




Zócalo Public Square  (Audio) show

Summary: Washington may resuscitate the credit market, but will U.S. politics ever be the same? Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and New York Times columnist, explores the impact of what he has called, "the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression" on politics, parties, and people. Will the drive for tighter regulation dissuade the Reagan faithful?