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American Carmakers in Crisis
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

Days of reckoning in Detroit. With gas topping $4, and Ford announcing historic changes, we look at shrinking American cars and carmakers, and whether they can make the turn.

 
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China’s Factory Girls
Friday, October 10, 2008 Factory Girls

The women behind much of the word economy. We look inside the lives of China’s factory girls.

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Week in the News
Friday, October 10, 2008 A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Thursday Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Global financial panic, and the rough road back, in politics and pocketbooks. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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On Point Blog
Holtz-Eakin v. Bush Admin.
By Wen Stephenson

There were several interesting exchanges in Thursday’s first hour between Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Austan Goolsbee, but this one stood out. Holtz-Eakin said that the Treasury plan to take an ownership stake in banks is “very disturbing,” and added: “It’s not the way things should be done in the United States.”

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The economic advisers
By Wen Stephenson

A heads-up to listeners — as part of our series on the issues of 2008, we’ll be joined in our first hour tomorrow (Thursday) by the top economic advisers to McCain and Obama.

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On the issues
By Wen Stephenson

A note here, and a question or two for listeners, about On Point’s campaign coverage. You may have noticed recent shows with the phrase “Issues ‘08″ in the title.

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