Altman: Solving the U.S. Debt Crisis
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Altman: Solving the U.S. Debt Crisis

April 26, 2011 5:58 pm (EST)

Altman: Solving the U.S. Debt Crisis
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Roger Altman, Founder and Chairman of Evercore Partners and former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, discusses the prospects for solving the U.S. debt and deficit with John Bussey, Washington Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal. Altman and Bussey spoke on the sidelines of CFR’s 2011 Corporate Conference.

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