Yale Experts Judge Obama's Jobs Plan
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Channel: Yale University · 2011 · News & Politics
Two eminent Yale professors, Robert Shiller and Jacob Hacker, offer their insights of President Obama's speech before the joint session of Congress on September 8, 2011. Shiller, economist and author of "Irrational Exuberance" and "Animal Spirits," comments on the prospects for the American Jobs Act as an effective stimulus for the economy. Hacker, author of "The Great Risk Shift" and "Winner-Take-All Politics," discusses the proposal laid out by Obama from a political point of view, and analyzes its feasibility long-term.
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