America's Game of Chicken
America is racing towards a "fiscal cliff" in a terrifying game of chicken. Two giants of American economics debate what will happen next...
President Obama and Mitt Romney are playing a game of chicken with the American - and, indeed, the entire world - economy. Neither has said how they will steer away from the impending "fiscal cliff" - the $600 billion of tax rises and spending cuts due in January.
Two giants of American economics discuss what happens next: Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the former economic advisor to John McCain.
Plus: why is one of the world's biggest oil producers rationing gasoline?
(Image: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's pointed fingers, Credit: Getty Images)
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