David Stockman: Can the American Empire Survive a Failing Economy?

David Stockman, served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration, discusses continued Federal deficits and recession risks.

David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America and Trumped! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin... And How to Bring It Back.