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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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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 11:00 am

The new era of retro-thrift: we’ll look at how the recession has reshaped the spending and saving of Americans.

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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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Friday, February 13, 2009 at 11:00 am

Personal finance guru Suze Orman on your money — and surviving the economic meltdown.

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Monday, September 22, 2008 at 11:00 am

Buy? Sell? Hold or panic? We ask top financial advisers what they advise now in a scrambled market.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 11:00 am

It has been scary times for any American with two cents to invest and no idea where to put it. Stock markets — at home and abroad — way off their highs and who knows where the bottom is. Housing prices collapsing. Headlines full of crisis talk and emergency intervention.
The pros say don’t panic, but [...]

 
Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

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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