A Conversation with Barney Frank

Monday, November 14, 2011
Speaker
Barney Frank
U.S. Representative, Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts; Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee, U.S. House of Representatives

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: The Emperor has too Many Clothes: Adjusting America's Military Spending to Reality

Congressman Frank will discuss the impossibility of significant deficit reduction in the United States without significant reductions in military spending.

 

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