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Smells Like Teen Spirit, Again!
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, on post-traumatic slavery disorder or syndrome.
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
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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