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Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Graduates from various institutions take part in the Toss Your Caps: Philly Graduates College photo opportunity on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Friday, May 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP)

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A board on a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the Dow Jones industrial average with an intraday number above 15,000, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP)

All- time highs in the stock market lately. We ask why, and whether it says recovery or bubble. PLUS: Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The Senate immigration bill includes a provision that favors temporary work visas for computer specialists. (Bill Selak/Flickr)

The high-tech end of immigration reform. Silicon Valley is buying a lot of access on Capitol Hill. They want more to welcome more foreign engineers. We’ll look at why.

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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 | 11:00 AM

As the housing market looks to be on the rebound, our guests Karl Case and Christopher Mayer worked out what higher housing numbers really mean for the economy, homeowners, and Americans on the lookout for their dream home.

 
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A "Sold" sign is posted outside a home in Indianapolis, Tuesday, April 9, 2013.

Housing prices break out of their slump. We look at the rebound and what it means for the nation’s recovery.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | 10:00 AM
"Capitalism Works for Me!" by Steve Lambert (Flickr, SPACES Cleveland)

A big second look at capitalism. How it’s worked over time. How it hasn’t. And whether it’s run its course.

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Monday, April 8, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A crowd of job seekers attends a health care job fair, Thursday, March 14, 2013 in New York. (AP)

Jobs and the sequester. We’re looking at the new dip in job creation.

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Thursday, April 4, 2013 | 10:00 AM
David Stockman, wunderkind of the Reagan administration and a key architect of the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. (AP)

Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman says crony capitalism has left the U.S. economy in giant trouble. He’s with us.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Students at the University of Vermont. (AP)

Jobs and new graduates. We look at personal and national strategies for putting our young to work.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Trader Peter Tuchman smiles as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, March 5, 2013. (AP)

The Dow hit a record high. What’s behind the jump? And what’s the big picture economic message?

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May 17, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

May 17, 2013
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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

 
May 17, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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