With all the chaos at the SEC, it's enough to make one nostalgic for calmer times at the watchdog agency. Arthur Levitt, the longest-serving SEC chairman, has long felt that Wall Street does not do enough to inform investors and often purposely deceives them. We'll also travel out west to explore the return of ealy '90s Seattle-style grunge and hear more about what one group of social workers is descriing as "post-traumatic slavery disorder."
What Trent Meant
Carol M. Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University and author of The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge To Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2002) says the Senator Lott scandal is just the beginning of a conversation America needs to have on race
Bitter Harvest
Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Judge Baker Children's Center and author of Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans (Beacon Press, 2001) and Larry Higginbottom, founder of the Osiris Group www.osirisgroup.org and a social worker, ...
Smells Like Grunge
Jonathan Ponemon, founder and CEO of Subpop, www.subpop.com an indie rock label often credited with launching grunge music and Brian Turnick, senior analyst for specialty retailing at JP Morgan, on the return of grunge culture
Levitt Or Leave It!
Arthur Levitt, former Securities and Exchange Commissioner from 1993-2001, on his book, Take On The Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You To Know, What You Can Do to Fight Back (Pantheon, 2002)
Open Phones: Money!
Listeners comment on what they plan to do with money they're pulling off the stock market