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The Brian Lehrer Show / June 30, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, June 30, 2005
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  • Chinese Dragon

    Doing Business with the Dragon

    For more than a decade, China has been a magnet for American investment. Now the Chinese want to acquire some American businesses, signaling a change in the relationship. Economist Paul Krugman says it’s appropriate to proceed with caution.

Handshake Deal

Ben Smith, writer for the New York Observer and blogger for the paper's blog The Politicker,
» The Politicker
and
Douglas Muzzio, Professor of Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College,
» Baruch College
- on the New York City budget agreed to by handshake between Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker Miller

Rules In Transit

Listeners call in with rules they'd like to see imposed on their fellow subway and bus riders

Doing Business with the Dragon

Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and professor fo economics and international affairs at Princeton University
- on how the US should deal with China as the country buys American companies
» Paul Krugman

The Things People Say

Michael Malice,
and
S. Morgan Friedman, Creators of overheardinnewyork.com
- on the incredible things New Yorker's overhear
» Overheard in New York

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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.

paper trail small

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!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

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!

happiness

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.

Judge Sotomayor

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.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.