Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
President Obama’s budget projects the federal government will borrow $2.6 trillion this year and another $1.1 trillion in 2010. At look at the ongoing willingness and ability of global investors to finance sharp increases in U.S. national debt
Guests
- Robert Hormats Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs
- Albert Keidel Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, former acting manager of the Treasury Department's Asia Office, and an adjunct professor of China's economy at Georgetown University.
- John B Taylor Professor of economics, Stanford University and former undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury during the Bush administration, and author of "Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis"
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