Mark Weisbrot, co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Our guest this week is Mark Weisbrot, co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy. We will be talking with Mr Weisbrot about recent political developments in Latin America, and the World Social Forum, from which he has just returned.