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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:00 am

Ed Andrews, economics reporter for The New York Times, tells us his personal home foreclosure story.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

Home sales ticking up. Is it time to bid, to buy, to rent, or still to run? We dig in.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 10:00 am

Obama rolls out his bailout for struggling homeowners. We’ll look at who it helps, who it doesn’t, and whether it can solve the housing crisis.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 11:00 am

The New Yorker’s George Packer takes us into the heart of Florida’s housing collapse.

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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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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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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 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

At the root of the financial crisis — problems with American bank regulation and the American housing market. We’ll look at both.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 10:00 am

Housing prices nationwide continue to plummet in the latest numbers. We’ll check in around the country from Boston to L.A., and in between, to ask if housing is finally bottoming out.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 10:00 am

The numbers out this week show a housing market going to hell in a handbasket — if we’re not already there. Prices plunging at historic rates, home sales dropping all over.
As Congress haggles over a landmark bill to provide relief for beleaguered homeowners, everyone wants to know if we’ve hit bottom yet, or if there’s [...]

 
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

When Wall Street giant Bear Stearns was on the ropes last month, it took the federal government less than two days to leap in and guarantee a bailout for a bank with a reputation for playing fast and loose in the markets.
With millions of homeowners around the country up against foreclosure and millions of homes [...]

 
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

If you want to see the madness and the grisly aftermath of the U.S. housing boom and bust, look at Florida. It’s not alone. Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Detroit — they’ve all got horror-story numbers now. But the biggest home price drops in the country were in Miami last year.
Empty condos, collapsing values. The heart [...]

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 10:00 am

When President Bush unveiled his administration’s plan last week to help Americans — more than a million of them — struggling to pay subprime mortgages, critics immediately called it “too little, too late.”
In communities all across the country — from the inner city to well-heeled suburbs — foreclosures are rampant. And the worst of the [...]

 
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 10:00 am

Former Wall Street hotshot, now Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson is orchestrating a big banks “mega-fund” to help mop up the subprime mortgage mess — and try to get some of that bad debt off the books and avoid a deeper credit crunch that could still stove in the U.S. economy.
The stakes are high, but still [...]

 
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
Friday, July 3, 2009 image

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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