On today’s show guest host Mike Pesca fills in for Leonard Lopate. He’ll speak with MIT professor Simon Johnson about U.S. financial history and how the six megabanks still standing control more than 60 percent of the country’s GDP! Then, Josh Axelrad explains why he left Wall Street for a career in professional blackjack. Also, a film location scout looks at scenes from classic movies to show how New York City has changed over the years. Plus, former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Hugh Pope on his experiences working and living in two dozen countries throughout the Middle East.
13 Bankers
Simon Johnson, professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, gives an account of recent U.S. financial history and the showdowns between American democracy and Big Finance. In 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, ...
Repeat Until Rich
Josh Axelrad had a respectable but dull job on Wall Street when he decided to abandon it to enter the world of professional blackjack. His book Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter’s Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars is a darkly funny account of his experience playing ...
Location Scouting in New York
New York film location scout Nick Carr has tracked down sites for such films as the remake of “The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3” and “Doubt.” On his blog, ScoutingNY.com he shares his favorite locales around the city and tracks the transformation of the city by comparing scenes ...
Dining with Al-Qaeda
Hugh Pope, an acclaimed former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, has lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the Middle East. In Dining with Al-Qaeda, he presents a modern-day exploration of the politics, religion, and aspirations of Muslim peoples to show how the Middle East is ...
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