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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 [...]

 
On Point Today
Hour 2
Judging Andrew Jackson
Friday, November 21, 2008 American Lion

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham talks about his new biography of President “Number 7,” Andrew Jackson, who broke down the doors of Washington for the common man.

 
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Week in the News
Friday, November 21, 2008 Executive Officer Alan Mulally, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 19, 2008, before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the automotive industry bailout.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

All eyes on Obama’s emerging cabinet. The Big Three go begging. Markets keep tumbling. Our news roundtable goes behind this week’s headlines.


Recent Shows
Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’
Thursday, November 20, 2008 Malcolm Gladwell

The “Tipping Point” master Malcolm Gladwell talks about the ecology of success and where the super-successful get their edge.

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Unemployment Survival
Thursday, November 20, 2008 Jobseekers look for employment opportunities and work on resumes at WorkSource California in Los Angeles Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Unemployment is rising fast, and America’s social safety net isn’t what it used to be. We talk about surviving the new economic reality.

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On Point Blog
The Party of Obama…
By Jack Beatty

Speaking to Tom in today’s second hour, Stanford historian David Kennedy noted that few would have predicted that the Democrats would nominate the nation’s first African-American president. The Democrats only “came over” on civil rights in the 1960s.

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Listening back on the ‘08 campaign…
By Wen Stephenson

As you count down the hours to the end of this long, long election campaign, if you’re tired of staring at the endless polls and projection maps, here’s an excuse to give your eyeballs a rest and just use your ears for a while.

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Enemies Within…
By Wen Stephenson

Sure, there’s a Halloween sound to our second hour today — a conversation with historian John Demos about his new book, “The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World.”

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