On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the plan for a plan to save the Euro Zone, the possibility that high unemployment is here to stay, and the impending death of America’s middle class.
http://newledger.com/2011/10/are-we-witnessing-the-death-of-americas-middle-class/
Tagged with economics middle class politics
For our leadoff podcast of the new year, we invited our friends Jesse Thomas and Leslie Bradshaw from JESS3 on to discuss the big trends in tech in 2010 and ventured some predictions on the new innovations we’d see in 2011.
JESS3′s portfolio includes work for Facebook, Google, NASA, Nike, Samsung, and MTV. Follow them everywhere @JESS3 — starting on Facebook and Twitter.
Here are just a few of the stories we discussed in this free-flowing look into the future:
Vegas hotels using Twitter clout to decide who get rooms Where’s my flying car? The future that wasn’t. Feltron Annual Report Will self-driving cars revolutionize traffic?
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Walter Olson – senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, and founder/chief blogger of Overlawyered.com – is the guest on this week’s FIRE podcast. Olson talks with host Arin Greenwood about his new book, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America. http://outofthestormnews.com/2010/12/13/fire-podcast-walter-olson-on-schools-for-misrule/
Tagged with law schools politics libertarian academia
NPR’s President Vivian Schiller offered her thoughts on the state of public media yesterday to students at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. Her visit coincided with congressional Republicans’ push to de-fund NPR and other organizations that get federal money from the Corporation from Public Broadcasting.
Tagged with journalism politics public radio media