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Financial crisis
 
 
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama rolls out the biggest financial market regulation revamp since the Great Depression. Is it enough? Too much? We’ll dig in.

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Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 10:00 am

When free market champion Richard Posner says capitalism has failed, you sit up and listen. And we will.

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Monday, March 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

The president applies a full-court press. We ask three experts to grade the administration on banks, bailouts, and its “new deal” so far.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 10:00 am

Stress tests, solvency, nationalization. Will America’s big banks soon be owned by Uncle Sam? We’ll look at Obama’s tough choices, and the way out for banks.

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Monday, February 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

From the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, Manhattan to the Mississippi, urban theorist Richard Florida explains how the economic crisis will reshape America.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 10:00 am

U.S. banks are face-to-face with a worst-case scenario: failure on a massive scale. We’ll look at President Obama’s options — including nationalization.

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Monday, January 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

With falling exports, closing factories, and fear of social upheaval, we’ll look at what China does now, with top observers in Shanghai and Beijing.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:00 am

John Maynard Keynes wanted to save capitalism from itself. Now he’s back, in a big way. Economist and biographer Robert Skidelsky looks at the Keynes comeback.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 10:00 am

Move over Mr. Ponzi, Bernard Madoff is here. We’ll look at the scam that’s rocking rich Americans, and a whole lot more.

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Friday, December 12, 2008 at 10:00 am

Blagojevich makes “bleeping” a headline. Detroit prays for a bailout. Obama taps an energy chief. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 10:00 am

Washington talks of help for homeowners. One plan has mortgage rates at 4.5 percent. Great news, but for whom? We look at the plans.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

We look back on money, greed, and the bubble with a hedge-fund poet.

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Monday, December 1, 2008 at 10:00 am

New York Times columnist, economist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman on the crisis of 2008 and what it’s going to take to dig ourselves out.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:00 am

Historian Niall Ferguson discusses the economic crisis of our time, right now.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 10:00 am

Should Washington bail out Detroit? We hear the arguments for and against pouring billions into America’s collapsing auto industry.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:00 am

Top Wall Street insider Henry Kaufman on what our economy — and society — are up against in the current downturn.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

Fear and trembling in the retail world. If the lights go out in economic crisis, what happens to all those stores?

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 10:00 am

Stopping the foreclosure devastation. We’ll look at a plan that would let strapped homeowners rent to buy.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 10:00 am

In the wake of the G7 crisis meeting and dramatic actions in Washington and Europe, we look at the global economic picture, the future of globalization, and where America stands in the world.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 10:00 am

We’ll talk with the top advisors to Obama and McCain on the number one issue in the world — the economy, and how to save it.

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On Point Today
Hour 2
Chemicals in Our Bodies
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Scientists report that widely used chemicals — endocrine disruptors — are causing serious health problems in humans. We ask what the government is, and is not, doing about it.

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Hour 1
Sarah Palin’s Surprise
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s out-of-the-blue resignation. We ask what it means for her future — and for the GOP.

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Recent Shows
Crooked Still
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Tunes from old Appalachia with a new bluegrass twist. The hit folk band “Crooked Still” plays for us in our studio.

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Week in the News
Friday, July 3, 2009 image

A U.S. offensive in Afghanistan. Al Franken heads to the Senate. Mark Sanford keeps talking. And unemployment keeps rising. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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On Point Blog
India, China and the Climate

The passage of the House climate bill – discussed in our first hour today – has been greeted with enthusiasm in many quarters. But in some ways, the real question is whether a global framework can be established in Copenhagen in December, when countries will negotiate a new international treaty to curb greenhouse gases.

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Michael, Ed, and Farrah

The week-in-the-news roundtable always involves tough choices on sound clips – what to include, what to leave out. Amid all the pressing hard news, we often give a nod to a notable person who’s passed away. But this week brought, well, a ridiculous range of choices.

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Planet Money, On Point — Your Questions!

On Wednesday night, June 24, On Point will tape a show before an audience in Boston with two stars of NPR’s “Planet Money,” Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum. We need your online questions to put to them — about anything from the roots of the economic crisis to NPR’s coverage.

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