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With his new economic team President-elect Obama is reportedly planning the most aggressive stimulus policies since the Great Depression. A look at some of the elements of an expanded economic package and its overall impact on the U.S. economy.
William Gale, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, is former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He served as senior domestic policy advisor for the McCain Campaign and was former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Joseph Stiglitz, is a professor of economics at Columbia University. A Nobel Prize-winning economist, he served as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economist at the World Bank.
President Abraham Lincoln needed abolitionist Frederick Douglass to help save the Union. Douglass needed Lincoln to end slavery. How the views of the two self-made men converged and transformed our country
John Stauffer, Chairman of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University and author of 7 books and 45 articles.
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