Marion Blakey, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association tells Rebecca Cooper defense industry leaders are very concerned about the prospect of automatic federal budget cuts next year. She also talks about her experience as a female executive in a male-dominated industry.

Barbara Lang, President and CEO of the DC Chamber of Commerce joins the University of Maryland’s Peter Morici and The Fiscal Times Josh Boak in a discussion of new economic stimulus by the Federal Reserve and its impact on the D.C. region.

Boak, Morici and Lang consider the stock market’s response to the QE3 stimulus.

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