It's a jungle out there in the U.S. economy these days. Wall Street all over the place, mainly down. Investment banks writing off billions in losses. Housing still tumbling.
Everybody's got a band-aid or a bail-out to propose, but they all cost money -- and some may do more harm than good.
We're sitting down this hour with Lawrence Summers -- former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Harvard President, and chief economist for the World Bank -- to look at our options.
This hour, On Point: bold thinker, big thinker, Larry Summers on the way out of the mess we're in.
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Lawrence H. Summers, professor of economics and President Emeritus of Harvard University, he was Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001
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Robert Samuelson, columnist and contributing editor at Newsweek and The Washington Post
