Story Transcript Candidates and the bailout Producer: Carlo Basilone CARLO BASILONE, TRNN (VOICEOVER): The markets in New York were rocked again on Monday on doubts as to whether the $700 billion bailout of the financial sector would resuscitate a slumping economy. The Dow Jones Industrials sunk 372 points, as speculators were also nervous that Congress […]
Author Archives: Ron Blackwell, Ellen Frank
Ron Blackwell is Chief Economist for the AFL-CIO, where he has also worked as Director of Corporate Affairs. Before coming to the AFL-CIO, Blackwell was assistant to the president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and chief economist of UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Textiles and Industrial Employees). Prior to joining the labor movement, Blackwell was an academic dean at the New School for Social Research in New York (now the New School University), where he taught economics, politics and philosophy.
Ellen Frank , Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, a member of the Dollars & Sense collective. She is the author of The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation about Deficits, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America , was published in 2004.
