Peter Gosselin, “Is the Ownership Society Dead?”
Peter Gosselin, national economics correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, visits Zócalo to discuss the themes in his latest book, High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families. For a brief, shining moment in the late 1990s, a broad consensus reigned among Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, business executives and union leaders. The great mass of Americans had reached a new plateau where we no longer had to rely on labor alone to support our families and ourselves, but had assets as well. With them, we could play …
