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.
June 2013: Robert Pollin on President Obama's picks for CFTC commissioners
June 2013: Michael Ash on the top emitters of greenhouse gases in the U.S.
June 2013: Robert Pollin on the many benefits of investing in education
May 2013: Jeannette Wicks-Lim on the real number of Americans in poverty
May 2013: Robert Pollin responds to Reinhart and Rogoff's defense
April 2013: Robert Pollin debates Joseph Minarik on the impact of debt on growth
April 2013: Robert Pollin on the impact of the Reinhart and Rogoff critique
April 2013: Gerald Epstein on commodity traders' $250 billion profit
April 2013: Thomas Herndon and Michael Ash on the relationship between public debt and economic growth
April 2013: Teresa Ghilarducci on the reality of seniors' budgets and social security
April 2013: Robert Pollin on Obama's austerity budget and the unemployment rate
April 2013: Gerald Epstein on how the recession has been good for corporate profits
April 2013: James Boyce on how corn subsidies damage global biodiversity
April 2013: Jeannette Wicks-Lim on the Senate hearings on raising the federal minimum wage
April 2013: Stephanie Seguino on inequality as the root of the crisis
April 2013: Kevin Gallagher on "everyone but China" trade agreements
March 2013: Gerald Epstein on "financial follies" in Cyprus and elsewhere
March 2013: Robert Pollin on who really benefits from austerity policies
March 2013: James Boyce on how environmental issues are inherently social and political
February 2013: James Heintz on budget cuts and quantitative easing
February 2013: Ilene Grabel on double standards for currency manipulations
February 2013: Robert Pollin on how raising the minimum wage will affect employment
February 2013: Sasha Breger Bush on commodities markets, farmers and food
February 2013: Robert Pollin on Obama's support for clean and dirty energy
February 2013: Stephanie Luce on the historically low unionization rates
February 2013: Gerald Epstein on the State of the Union address
February 2013: Gerald Epstein on how Obama's new appointments can influence policy
February 2013: Robert Pollin on the relationship between levels of union membership and inequality
February 2013: Gerald Epstein on the Bloomberg perspective on financial regulation
January 2013: Robert Pollin on how Obama can really help the poor and middle class
January 2013: Michael Ash on the impact of the German banking system on Europe
January 2013: Gerald Epstein on whether there is still hope for Dodd-Frank to be effective
January 2013: James Heintz on the Bank of America mortgage fraud settlement
January 2013: Gerald Epstein on how the deal to avoid the fiscal cliff benefits the wealthy
January 2013: Robert Pollin on the economic outlook for 2013
December 2012: Robert Pollin on the potential impacts of the Fed's unemployment targets
December 2012: Robert Pollin on how job losses are increasing states' health care costs
December 2012: Gerald Epstein on how state tax "incentives" for businesses are really mass subsidies
December 2012: James Boyce on the other pollutants released in the processing of fossil fuels
December 2012: Jeannette Wicks-Lim on the lack of jobs requiring college degrees
November 2012: Léonce Ndikumana on new estimates of capital flight from Africa
November 2012: Özlem Onaran on a wage-led path to recovery
November 2012: Engelbert Stockhammer on the stagnating effect of austerity in Europe
October 2012: Robert Pollin on the "Robin Hood Tax" introduced in Congress
October 2012: Michael Greenberger on how the financial sector is blocking regulation
October 2012: Gerald Epstein on what wasn't said in the second presidential debate
October 2012: Marcus Stanley on the real world effects of the derivatives market
September 2012: Jennifer Taub on the unregulated shadow banking system
September 2012: Jane D'Arista on how the Federal Reserve has managed the financial crisis
September 2012: Robert Pollin on Obama and the export-led recovery
September 2012: Gerald Epstein on whether Obama really just needs more time
Political Economy Research Institute
November 2011