Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Political Research in Washington, DC. Doctor of Economics from the University of Michigan, he is co-author with Dean Baker of Social Security: The Phony Crisis, and has written numerous research papers on political and economic issues. His comments and opinion articles have appeared in major newspapers in the United States and in many other countries and appear frequently in national and international television and radio programs. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.