Interview with Alan Berube: Moving Past the Great Recession
For the inaugural edition of Metro Matters, Next American City’s Editor in Chief, Diana Lind, talks with Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution about the Great Recession. Which cities have recovered best from the economic downturn? What’s next for the urban economy? And what should President Obama do to help out hurting metros? Listen to Metro Matters and find out—and tell us what you think about the program. We’re collecting audience feedback at 646-402-5683 x 59680.
Download this episode (8 MB), or listen online:
Erica Schlaikjer on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:22pm
Congratulations on launching a new podcast series! Your listeners might be interested to know that we just launched a new blog post series, “Moving Through the Recessionk,” about how the economic recession is affecting transportation. Check out our first post today about trends in transit ridership. http://thecityfix.com/moving-through-the-recession-part-1-trends-in-transit-ridership/.
Michael Kovach in Philadelphia on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:21pm
So if I understand the podcast discussion we should be deversifying all of our cities to the largest extent possible. One way of bringing back some of the manufacturing that has gone away is to incentivize companies on a national level to set up manufacturing here in the US. Converserely any company that off-shores should be penalized with higher taxes.
Gary in NJ on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:09am
It would be nice if there were a link to directly download your podcast. Streaming it is not always an option.
Derek in Halifax, NS on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:25pm
Gary - your wish has been granted.
Gary on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 5:31pm
Much appreciated! Thanks for being so responsive.