Louis Hyman on "Debtor Nation" and the Distribution of Wealth

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The rich are getting rich and the gap between the rich and poor in America is getting wider.  Fifty years ago the gap wasn't all that big, but in the 1970s it began to grown.  There's a new documentary film about the origins of today's budget crisis called "The Flaw."  One of it's backers is economic historian Louis Hyman, also the author of a book called "Debtor Nation."  He tells Anne Strainchamps that inequality is the driving force behind the change in America's economic structure.