The CEO’s of Chrysler, Ford and GM are still hoping for movement from the US Congress on the $25B bailout of the auto-industry. The Real News asks Jim Stanford and Justin Fox about public control of this sector. Jim Stanford from the Canadian Auto Workers Union says that if the companies are “bailed out” by […]
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Justin Fox is the business and economics columnist for TIME. Before joining the magazine in 2007, he spent more than a decade writing and editing for Fortune, where he was Fortune's chief economics writer. In 2000 and 2001, he was the magazine's Europe editor, based in London. He started the blog, Curious Capitalist, on CNNMoney.com in 2006.
Jim Stanford is an Economist in the Research Department of the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada's largest private-sector trade union. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 from the New School for Social Research in New York. He also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University in the U.K. (1986) and the University of Calgary (1984). Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999 by James Lorimer & Co.) and co-editor (with Leah F. Vosko) of Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004).
