Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three US administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including his most recent, Aftershock.



It is the worst economic situation since the Great Depression, and you might think at least one of the candidates for president of the United States would come up with a few big ideas for how to get us all out of it.