National Debt: The Threat and Potential Solutions

Duration
1:06:01

National Debt: The Threat and Potential Solutions


David Walker, Former U.S. Comptroller General; Former Head, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director, The Concord Coalition

Michael Boskin, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Chairman, President George H.W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors

Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Tom Campbell, Visiting Professor of Economics and Law, Chapman University; Former Director of Finance, State of Calfornia; Former Member of the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress - Moderator


We are inundated with facts and figures that support the argument that the U.S. government is headed toward fiscal crisis, yet we rarely read or hear a discussion of how such a crisis can be avoided. Experts with years of front-line experience in the fiscal jungle of Washington share their ideas on what steps should be taken now to place the nation on a sustainable course of fiscal responsibility.


This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on September 23, 2010