The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at UCLA, on the state of the economy. Topics include:

• Why unemployment remains high six years into the Great Recession
• Whether a Keynesian-style fiscal stimulus would improve things
• The lessons of the Great Depression
• Whether America is a high tax or low tax nation

Other Resources:

• Taxes Are Much Higher Than You Think — Edward Prescott and Lee Ohanion
• Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story — Harold Cole and Lee Ohanion
• It’s Time to Bring Back Jobs – Lee Ohanion

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