'Red Ink: Inside The High-Stakes Politics Of The Federal Budget'




The Conversation Podcast show

Summary: There is agreement that the federal deficit is unsustainable in the long run. The US is borrowing too much money. But there's little agreement about when we will have gone too far. We talk to Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel about his breakdown in his new book "Red Ink: Inside the High–Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget."