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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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Monday, February 25, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A workman monitors a robotic ladle moving molten zinc at ArcelorMittal Steel's hot dip galvanizing line in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. (Mark Duncan/AP)

The call for federal investment in new manufacturing innovation hubs across the country. Would they make the U.S. more competitive? Should we spend the money? Where?

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Thursday, February 7, 2013 | 11:00 AM
In this Jan. 18, 2011 file photo, John Pham, right, a program officer with Reserve Inc., reviews the resume of Bob Drake, 63, at an AARP Career event aimed at helping older workers improve their job search, in New York. (AP)

Tough times for older workers. Many can’t retire or find a job. We’ll look at boomers and more in the bust.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Fog obscures the Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)

Economist Benjamin Friedman on how hard times feed polarized politics.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Consumer Eva Cevallos with her eleven-month daughter, Quinn, pays with a credit card at Walmart. (AP)

With so many Americans scraping by, we’re looking at the debt traps and who’s most vulnerable.

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Monday, January 14, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Gov. Jerry Brown points to a chart showing an increase in education funding in his proposed 2013-14 state budget. (AP)

After years of fiscal trouble, California’s looking at a budget surplus. We’ll look at how they did it and the lessons there.

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Monday, January 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
In this Dec. 5, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the "fiscal cliff" at the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, in Washington. (AP)

On the coming debt ceiling battle, the President says he won’t be held hostage by Congress. But is there any constitutional way for him to avoid a standoff?

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Traders wear "2013" glasses as they work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP)

The US economy in 2013. We’ll look at the bright spots, red flags and big trends for the year ahead.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Sen. John Barrasso, left, R-Wyo., talks with Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who holds up his watch, near the Senate chambers after a vote on the fiscal cliff, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in Washington. (AP)

Hammering out a deal. We’ve got the latest news and analysis from the fiscal cliff.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 | 10:00 AM
President Barack Obama, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama’s re-election has stiffened Democrats’ spine against cutting popular benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. (AP)

A controversial fiscal cliff: peg social security payments to a lower inflation gauge, — the “chained CPI.” We’ll look at the impact.

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May 21, 2013
Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

May 21, 2013
Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

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May 20, 2013
Senate subcommittee on Personnel Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, greets members of the third panel before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military. (AP)

Solving the U.S. military’s sex abuse problem. We look at the chain of command issue and what needs to change

 
May 20, 2013
In this Friday, July 20, 2012 photo, workers are pictured on a drilling rig near Calumet, Okla. Oklahoma is one of several states, including North and South Dakota, that has enjoyed a boom in the energy sector driven in large part by new and improved drilling techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which cracks open fissures in rock formations to retrieve oil and gas. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

North America as the new fossil fuel powerhouse. We’ll look at the blessing, the curse and how it may reshape geopolitics and energy politics.

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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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