A new study by economists Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder showed the U.S. government’s nearly $800 billion economic stimulus and the Wall Street bailout likely steered the American economy away from another depression. Jeffrey Brown moderates a debate between Zandi and Stanford University economist John Taylor.

Click here for a transcript of the interview.

Source: PBS Newshour, July 29, 2010.

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