Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains what drove the US economy off a cliff and what steps need to be taken to rectify the situation during a Nation Institute panel discussion held to mark the release of a new book: Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover by Katrina vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation. Click here to buy the book.

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