PERI and The Real News Network Partnership

This collaboration between PERI and The Real News Network presents regular interviews and debates which bring current economic issues into focus. These interviews shed light on the full range of potential solutions to the current economic crisis, the economics of climate change, and PERI's long-term mission of bringing economic tools to bear to improve the daily lives of workers and families around the world.

February 2012: Jayati Ghosh on alternatives to neo-liberalism in Ecuador's economy

January 2012: Robert Pollin on the State of the Union address and a real plan for job creation

January 2012: Gerald Epstein looks at the current bank regulations and the chances of further reform

January 2012: James Boyce discusses the future of climate policy with Joe Romm

December 2011: Robert Pollin on the job impacts of military versus non-military investments

December 2011: Robert Pollin on bank reserves and job creation

November 2011: Robert Pollin on the myth of austerity and job creation

November 2011: Frank Bardacke on the undocumented farm workers who harvest our Thanksgiving meals

November 2011: Gerald Epstein on the threat to the welfare state in Germany

October 2011: Robert Pollin on regulatory reform and the Occupy movement

October 2011: James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana on the human cost of Africa debt and capital flight

October 2011: Gerald Epstein on Nixon's 1971 closing of the gold window and the rise of finance

September 2011: James Boyce on the climate justice imperative and current politics

>> Watch James Boyce's interview on cap-and-dividend climate policy here

September 2011: Heidi Garrett-Peltier on how bike and pedestrian infrastructure creates jobs

September 2011: Robert Pollin on Obama's plan to create jobs

August 2011: Gerald Epstein on the future of capitalism and the global economic crisis

August 2011: Jeff Thompson on why the gap between the rich and the non-rich matters

August 2011: Gerald Epstein on the Standard & Poors downgrade and the sub-prime mortgage crisis

August 2011: Robert Pollin on requiring that banks invest in productive activities

July / August 2011: Robert Pollin the debt ceiling, interest payments, and long-term debt

For the full five-part interview, please go to The Real News website.

July 2011: Jayati Ghosh on how speculation has driven up wheat prices

July 2011: Robert Pollin on how Wall Street speculation is driving up gas prices

June 2011: Jeannette Wicks-Lim on the fight for living wages in New York City

June 2011: Robert Pollin on non-austerity approaches to state budget crises

June 2011: Robert Pollin on health care costs and the long-term deficit

May 2011: James Heintz on jobs in a U.S. clean chemical industry

May 2011: Gerald Epstein on S&P's threat to downgrade the debt rating

May 2011: James Crotty on the threat of a return to 1920s capitalism

May 2011: Léonce Ndikumana and Robert Pollin on alternatives to IMF policies in Africa

April 2011: Robert Pollin the Progressive Caucus' budget proposal

April 2011: Robert Pollin on Obama's speech on the debt

April 2011: Jeffrey Thompson on the impact of taxes on migration

March 2011: Jeannette Wicks-Lim on privatization in New Haven

March 2011: Robert Pollin on full employment as a policy goal

March 2011: Robert Pollin & Fred Smith debate the impact of investments in clean energy

March 2011: Robert Pollin on how commodity speculation has driven up fuel prices

March 2011: James Heintz on the economic impact of EPA clean air regulations

February 2011: Robert Pollin and Jeffrey Thompson on public worker pay and the effects of cuts in public payrolls

February 2011: Robert Pollin and Jayati Ghosh on the high cost of food price volatility

February 2011: Arin Dube on the effects of the public health insurance option in San Francisco

January 2011: Robert Pollin & Bill Fletcher on the State of the Union address

January 2011: Gerald Epstein on ethics and conflicts of interest in the economics profession

January 2011: Gerald Epstein on the fate of financial reform under a Republican Congressional majority

December 2010: Jeannette Wicks-Lim on policies that could create decent living standards

December 2010: Jane D'Arista on the fundamentals of the Fed

December 2010: Nancy Folbre on the unemployment rates of men and women

December 2010: Robert Pollin & Leo Panitch on austerity, stimulus, and financial regulation

December 2010: James Crotty on who benefits from austerity measures

November 2010: James Crotty on how business uses crises to roll back wages

November 2010: Robert Pollin on trade and currency laws

November 2010: Robert Pollin on who benefits from deflation

November 2010: Jane D'Arista on a return to the gold standard

November 2010: James Crotty on the future under an austerity regime

November 2010: Robert Pollin on the Fed's $600 billion stimulus plan

October 2010: James K. Boyce on the future of climate change policy

________________________________________________________________ October 2010: Gerald Epstein on the distraction of currency wars in China

________________________________________________________________ October 2010: James K. Boyce on national security and responsibility

________________________________________________________________ October 2010: Jeffrey Thompson on the wage gap between the public and private sectors

________________________________________________________________ October 2010: James Heintz on the effects of bubble economies on employment and workers

________________________________________________________________ October 2010: Arindrajit Dube on the effect of minimum wages on jobs

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September 2010: Robert Pollin on why austerity is not the answer to the U.S. recession