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Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama makes his first trip to Asia. We’ll look at his agenda, and the rising power of the East.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:00 am

Globalization backlash. A new critique out of the third world and black America.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll look at America’s banker — China — and what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is bringing home from Beijing.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

A young African economist says “no thanks” to aid for Africa — that it hurts the continent. We’ll stage a debate.

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Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

The G-20 speaks. Detroit gets an ultimatum. North Korea fuels up for launch. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 10:00 am

With President Obama across the Atlantic for the G20 summit, we’ll ask Europeans how they see the way out of the global economic crisis — and whether America can still lead.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 10:00 am

Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson says the U.S. is still a prisoner of the financial industry, and needs to make a break.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 10:00 am

In a global economy in trouble, we’ll get the big view from India, with super-entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani.

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Monday, March 16, 2009 at 10:00 am

World finance ministers meet, but can they save the world economy? We’ll probe the G-20 — and the turmoil in global finance.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 10:00 am

Australian Paul Gilding calls the economic crisis “The Great Disruption” – the moment when the Earth’s environment and the economy hit the wall, together. We’ll talk with Gilding and others who say it’s time to change.

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Monday, March 2, 2009 at 10:00 am

The CIA warns that global economic crisis could spell instability for Latin America, from Argentina north. We’ll ask what’s coming.

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Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11:00 am

The Atlantic’s James Fallows is back from China as America transfers power to a new president. We’ll ask how it all looks to the China maven.

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Monday, January 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

Uber-economist Martin Feldstein on what it’s really going to take to pull out of the trouble we’re in.

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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 11:00 am

An Indian-American writer, who’s gone back to India in search of opportunity, talks about how he sees India and America now.

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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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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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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

Financial crisis in the USA, and the whole world is watching. We’ll reach out to London, Moscow, Shanghai and more to ask what they see in the rubble on Wall Street.

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
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Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
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Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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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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