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.
Comments [25]Top Wall Street insider Henry Kaufman on what our economy — and society — are up against in the current downturn.
Comments [29]Investigative reporter Danny Schechter names names, in what he calls the “plunder” of the U.S. economy.
Comments [58]At the root of the financial crisis — problems with American bank regulation and the American housing market. We’ll look at both.
Comments [68]We open up the phone lines and hear from listeners on the historic bailout failure, the financial crisis, and what should happen now.
Comments [55]We’ve heard from Congress and the White House on financial meltdown. But what is Wall Street itself thinking? We’ll get the word on the Street.
Comments [41]Bear Stearns was bailed out. Then Fannie and Freddie. Now Lehman Brothers has gone to the brink. More could follow. How much should the government step in?
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Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.
After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.
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British actor Michael Palin on how Monty Python came to be.
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Helene Cooper and her amazing story of privilege and flight from Africa in “The House at Sugar Beach.”
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