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This edition: Pete Peterson, Blackstone Group

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Original tape date: March 3, 2005.

It's hard to know what to believe. Either the social security system is in a crisis and needs to be fixed immediately, or it isn't. Either personal savings accounts are an essential part of saving social security, or they aren't. Either the budget deficits are building up or going to trigger an international financial meltdown, or they won't. Pete Peterson, author of “Running On Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It,” helps us figure out what to believe.

Guest List

Prof. Sarah Bartlett Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Peter G. Peterson Author

  • About this series

  • U$A Inc, currently not running on CUNY TV, offered a unique opportunity for senior members of the business community to share their thoughts on important business issues with a broad-based New York audience. While many business shows today seem focused on generating sound bites and tend to treat business as if it were a blood sport, U$A Inc allows for deeper discussion of the complex philosophical and ethical issues arising almost daily in the business world. Read the press release announcing the new series.

    U$A Inc was hosted by Sarah Bartlett, Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College/CUNY. Professor Bartlett is a well-respected business journalist, having previously held reporting and senior editorial positions at the New York Times, Business Week, Oxygen Media, Inside magazine, and Inc. magazine.

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