→ August 26, 2009
Are We Rome?: Fall of an Empire, Fate of America Cullen Murphy, writer, editor at large, Vanity Fair The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic. Today we focus less on the Roman republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on who’s [...]
→ June 12, 2009
Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. In the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis, she has also become the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout, formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief [...]
→ June 8, 2009
June 8, 2009 – recorded 18:00 EDT Pandemic predicted in autumn: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporte… Expert: hospitals missing true extent of swine flu infection: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life… One in four distribution workers get pay cut: http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Artic… One in four workers in retail have taken pay cut in recession: http://www.retail-week.com/careers/on… Quarter of HR staff have had their pay cut : http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/… [...]
→ June 3, 2009
Mike talks about what he has been doing at work, getting back to programming, etc. He Comments on the GM collapse, credit default swaps behind the collapse, commodities surges around the world. The devaluation of the dollar, and other word currencies. The changes to miranda rights.
