Posts Tagged ‘podcast’

George Packer: ‘The Ponzi State’ | On Point with Tom Ashbrook 020409:
New Yorker writer George Packer calls it the “Ponzi State.” He’s been out in the home foreclosure deserts of Florida, watching a world fall apart.
George Packer joins us from New York.  A staff writer for The New Yorker, he’s reported on war in Iraq, atrocities in [...]

Mind-Enhancers for All? | On Point with Tom Ashbrook 020309:
Attention-deficit drugs like Adderall and Ritalin have helped millions of ADHD kids get along. For a new generation, they’ve also fed a black market in college dorms and high-pressure labs, where off-label use by the non-ADHD gets term papers written and lab reports done.
Now, pharmaceutical companies [...]

BBC Global Business: Richard Florida - 16 Sep 08:
In this edition of Global Business Peter Day hears from Professor Richard Florida of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada, where he’s the Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.
Richard Florida is a leading thinker on the nature of cities. He grew up [...]

Investigating the Subprime Scandal | WBUR and NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook 1070708:
Investigative reporter Danny Schechter has never been quiet about the slick ways of Wall Street and American finance. He won Emmys and was out front on the 1980s S&L crisis.
Now, he’s on fire with the story of American and global financial market [...]

NPR: Hear: We’re On Thin Ice 100708:
Today on Planet Money:
* Lars Christensen, chief analyst at Danske Bank in Copenhagen, sorts fact from fiction in Iceland
* New York trader Vinny Catalano tells you where to look to see the financial crisis unfolding in real time. (Hint: it’s the TED spread, which he writes up on his [...]