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Monday, September 28, 2009 at 10:00 am

Wall Street bonuses helped create the global financial crisis. Now new rules are on the table. We’ll ask if Washington is ready to take on Wall Street pay.

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Monday, September 14, 2009 at 10:00 am

One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, we’ll look at whether Wall Street is vulnerable to yet another crisis.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

The Wall Street banks are back, with Goldman Sachs out front. But after all the bailouts, can we really stomach the mega bonuses and “too big to fail,” again?

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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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Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
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A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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On Point Blog
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

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