Unemployment during the Great Depression was 25%. So, just how does the current economic crisis stack up against history's other bubble-bursting periods? Plus, Cornel West on how to turn post-election euphoria into momentum for change. And the latest on Hillary Clinton as possible Secretary of State.
Staffing Up
Jerry Seib, Assistant Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, discusses the progress of the Obama transition and cabinet appointments.
Construction Costs
WNYC reporters Matthew Schuerman and Cindy Rodriguez talk about their recent investigation into building related deaths in NYC. Also Aaron Brashear, Chair of Brooklyn Community Board 7's Buildings & Construction Committee, on safety issues and oversight at construction sites. How you can help investigate building safety in your ...
The Hood
Kesha Young, NYC Neighborhood Story Project Manager and editor of From Kingsbridge to Canarsie: Reflections by 8 NYC Girls, talks about working with the eight young authors of the book. Urban Academy High School students Noelle Tannen and Jennifer Arzu, whose work was included in the book, ...
The History of Bubbles
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, places the current financial crisis in ...
Coming Down to Earth
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom, explains how we should move beyond post-election euphoria and get to work on what really matters.
Albany Update
WNYC's Bob Hennelly on what went down in Albany at the special meeting of the New York State Legislature yesterday.
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