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President Obama and Congressional Republicans reached an agreement on Monday to extend the Bush tax cuts, currently set to expire at the end of the year. We discuss the details of the tentative deal.

Guests:

Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at The Cato Institute

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy"

Ari Berman, contributing writer to the Nation Magazine and author of "Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics"

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