Berkeley-based author Michael Lewis joins us to discuss his latest book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine." Lewis’ other books include "The Blind Side," "Moneyball," "Liar’s Poker" and "Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood."
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Michael Lewis on the Financial Crisis
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NPR Marketplace Money - Home weatherization can pay off big
"Reporter Sam Eaton turns his home into a model of energy efficiency, and talks about the ways home weatherization can pay off big financially."
From http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/29/mm-eaton-weatherization/
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LIVE from the NYPL & The Aspen Institute Present: Capitalism and the Future
The President of the Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson joined by Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money , Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, and Nassim Taleb, scholar of randomness and risk and author of The Black Swan together will examine:
What will the American economic system look like in the months and years ahead?
Who are the innovators currently shaping the future?
What will be the role of business in that future?
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The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession
Andrew Gamble speaking at The London School of Economics July 2009
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Building out of a recession, part 2
Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started just weeks after the Wall Street Crash, giving Americans hope in times of depression. Jonathan Glancey, architecture correspondent for the Guardian newspaper in London, looks at the economic and social policies of the 1930s and the parallels we can find today.
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David Harvey, Honduran Generals, Victor Agosto and Remembering Hiroshima 8/06/09
Despite a variety of technical setbacks, the long awaited Seeing Red podcast is now available. David Harvey speaks of the “irrational rationalizing of an irrational system.” The Honduran Generals admit that they were saving US democracy by destroying it at home. We remember Hiroshima and pay tribute to the brave sacrifice of Victor Agosto, who was court-martialed for refusing to go back to Afghanistan.
Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years Ssangyong sit-in workers’ appeal: `Our lives are at stake’ Vestas Workers Occupy UK Factory On TV, Honduran Generals Explain Their Role in Coup Soldier Who Didn’t Obey Is Jailed
Music: Hiroshima by David Rovics The Internationale by Pól Mac Adaim Camilo by State Radio
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Shift Index Report 2009
Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change.
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Cultural Obituaries: The Death of Boom Culture? (with Walter Benn Michaels, David Simon, Susan Straight, and Dale Peck)
Fiction in the Age of Inequality
Now that markets have proven a flawed index of our economic well being, our cultural life needs to look beyond the pat certainties of laissez faire ideology. Among the ills afflicting the American novel at the height of boom culture, Walter Benn Michaels argues, was a curatorial obsession with past oppressions—from slavery to the Holocaust to memoir-style accounts of family abuse. Writers should now be asking less about what it meant to oppose the Holocaust, he contends, and more about what it means to support free trade.
David Simon, creator of The Wire, and Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon, join Michaels and novelist-critic Dale Peck to discuss the social vision of contemporary storytelling.
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On Point: The Great Disruption
The U.S. stock market took a big jump yesterday, and everyone cheered.
Almost everyone.
There is a big school of thought out there that says we must not just bounce back from this downturn. We must come back changed. This isn’t just a great recession we’re in, they say. It’s “The Great Disruption” — nature and the economy hitting the wall, collapsing, at the same time.
Australian environmentalist Paul Gilding invented the phrase. American climate expert Joseph Romm says the free ride is over.
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/03/creative-disruption/
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TAL:#377: Scenes From a Recession
The economy works in mysterious ways. This week, we highlight the unusual circumstances our economic drought has left us in, and the newly hatched plans being made to survive it.
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