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Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah" has been covered by over 50 artists, and is now poised to take the top two spots on the UK music charts. Who would have thought that these brooding lyri...

China now owns more U.S. public debt than any other nation — about one out of every 10 debt dollars — a reflection of its growing global economic influence. Blame wars, bailouts and ...

"This time we're hitting the skids as a country with the families already deeply in debt; that does not bode well for where we're headed for the next few years." --Elizabeth Warr...

"We believe that we are going to see a renaissance and more of a return to a savings culture." --Jeff Carter, on the transformation of U.S. banks

"I don't think we're close to a bottom now."
-- Dr. Richard K. Green on the housing market

"Americans are at the bottom of the developed world in how much we save."
--Ronald Wilcox on American debt

Guest: Steve Goldstein, London Bureau Chief, MarketWatch

Guest: Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst, The Global Language Monitor. Payack has analyzed language patterns of all the presidential and vice presidential debates.

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It's fewer than four weeks until the hotly contested presidential election, when every vote will count. But New York Times reporter Ian Urbina writes today that six swing states have...

Guest: Michael Hunter, markets reporter for the Financial Times

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., will hear the case of 17 Chinese Uighurs who have been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for seven years. Though the government cleared them for rele...

Guest: Dr. Anthony Cordesman. He holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr Corsdesman is a former National Security Assistant to Senator John McCain, and served in the Defense Department and State Department. He writes a lot about Afghanistan and Pakistan… ...

Guest: Carola Hoyas, chief energy correspondent for the Financial Times

The winner of November's presidential election will face profound science-based challenges and questions. Can we protect our citizens from emerging pandemics? How should we address is...

Guest: Chris Mason, senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. Mason recently served in the U.S. Foreign Service on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and he lectures regularly on Afghanistan and counterinsurgency.

Guest: Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times reporter