History of Debt
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
Between paying now or paying later, Americans have just about always preferred debt to taxes. Paul Solman talks to Simon Johnson of the MIT Sloan School of Management about his new book White House Burning, which chronicles the history -- including the whys and whererfores, virtues and vices -- of U.S. debt.
Duration: 9 minutes (00:09:23) Publishing date: 2012-11-27; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —