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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 11:00 am

Cheapskates, tight wads, and penny pinchers. We’ll look at the benefits, and costs, of not parting with your money.

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Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 11:00 am

Novelist Margaret Atwood turns her discerning eye to debt, to what we owe each other, and what makes us human.

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Monday, August 4, 2008 at 10:00 am

Hard-hit American consumers are turning to credit cards to plug their financial holes. Could the debt they’re racking up be the next shoe to drop in America’s credit crisis?

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 10:00 am

Heavyweight Harvard economist Martin Feldstein on the economic mess we are in, and maybe, the way out.

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Monday, July 14, 2008 at 10:00 am

The U.S .Treasury and Federal Reserve jump in to rescue the pillars of the US mortgage system: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

 
On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

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
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

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
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

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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