NPR story about the rise of barter in the dumpy economy.
Producer: Tina Antolini
Program: Weekend Edition Saturday
Playtime: 3 minutes 27 seconds
Date: December, 2008
The New Yorker's Ben McGrath talks about how the financial collapse relates to the end of the world as we know it...and he feels fine.
Program: New Yorker
Playtime: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Date: January, 2009
Check out the audio interview of the NY times's CATHERINE RAMPELL that accompanies the article.
Leonard Lopate talks to John Tallbott, the guy who predicted the housing crash. He now says things will get worse. He also says players in the financial system -- not the government or consumers -- are at fault. There has been lots on the economy but this guy has a unique perspective. Dire.
"This is a dead cat. This is not bouncing [back]."
Program: Leonard Lopate
Date: February, 2009
Ever wonder why politicians these days always talk about helping the Middle Class but not about helping the poor? FDR sought to lift Americans out of poverty. LBJ had a War on Poverty. So what happened? NPR Daniel Schorr considers the question in this commentary.
Program: All Things Considered
Playtime: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Like a tuperware party for gold, kind of. A party where you leave with more money that when you came.
Producer: Ronni Radbill
Program: Marketplace
This American Life returns to the financial crisis again this week, holding its own "hearings" to get to the bottom of things.
Program: This American Life
This is audio of part of an interview Planet Money's Adam Davidson did with TARP watchdog Elizabeth Warren. It features Warren and Davidson going at it pretty heatedly about what Warren's role should be. The interview subsequently illicited this apology (at about 1:50) in which someone hinted that Davidson's interview was sexist ( he wouldn't have spoken with Tim Geithner like that) and then this scolding by NPR's Ombudsman. All of which made the interview all that much more interesting and people. I am sure it is the most even listened to Podcast from Planet money.
An interview with a tall woman about a book she wrote about tall and the fact that tall people make more money. That begs a question they did not address: How much of the pay discrepancy between men and women can be ascribe to height - and vice versa.
For men, more $$ = more dates - at least in online dating.
Columbia Business School behavioral economist who used to run a speed dating service: "Yes if you want to put it very coarsely - and maybe you shouldn't put this on the air - the gold digger stereotype holds true."
On the other hand "There is no amount of money that will make an undesirable women attractive on these sites."
Ah, romance...
Link to Hearing Voices' post of the Radio Lab rebroadcast of a Hearing Voices piece that played on Living on Earth in 2005.
City X by Johnathan Mitchell.
The familiar story of a small Midwestern city, its mall, and the most common cause of city death - heart disease.
Taking performance art to the level of a stunt, as much as a project. Ronan Kelly details provocative arts works that caused a public stir, in Sweden, Ireland, and the UK.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 16 minutes 18 seconds