Economy

Show for November 17, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Denise Morris, this program deals with the global economic crisis and what it would take to fix it, the broken mental health system and what it needs, and why California voters passed a ban on gay marriage. We also hear a review of the documentary film abou... Read more

Reshaping the Economic World Order

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

What needs to be done to replace the current and collapsing economic global system with something that works for all of us? John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how this crisis developed and what it wi... Read more

Josh Tickell: "FUEL" Premieres in PDX

Airs at: Thu, 11/13/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Stephanie Potter speaks with filmmaker Josh Tickell about FUEL, the winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary. His film explores our nation’s dependence on foreign oil and looks at alternative solutions. "Fuel" has been garnering s... Read more

Fiction, Reality and the Economic Meltdown

Airs at: Wed, 11/12/2008 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Per Fagereng interviews Charlie Stephens, a former Senior Policy Analyst with the Oregon Department of Energy, Mr. Stephens created Oregon’s Sustainable Building Tax Credit Program and is a leading expert on sustainable community development, energy efficiency strategi... Read more

The Decider

Apropos of my post below, Obama is planning to review the plethora of onerous executive orders issued by President Bush: President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is... Read more

Back from the brink

While I'm still processing the full import of Obama's win -- I'll blog about it more later -- one very, very encouraging item that's popped up is his intention to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. From Spencer Ackerman: Less than a week after his election, and more than... Read more

End of the Republican era

The always-excellent Sidney Blumenthal, writing in the Guardian: Today's election is poised to end the Republican era in American politics - an era that began in reaction to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the Vietnam war and the civil rights revolution, was pioneered by Ri... Read more

Njoki Njehu on Locus Focus

Airs at: Tue, 10/14/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Locus Focus

Host Per Fagereng interviews Njoki Njehu from Africa Jubilee South about the current financial meltdown and bail-out, propagated by rich people at the expense of the entire world's poor. Read more

Joe & Abe - Oct 14

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2008 at 5:00pm

Produced for: The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

Hosts Abe Proctor and Joe Uris cuss and discuss the latest election news and coverage, including a run-down of the various Oregon Ballot Measures. The cops are tracking your car's location with high tech cameras that log when and where your license plates appear. Be awar... Read more

Good on yer, Krugman

Continuing on a theme, congratulations to Paul Krugman of the New York Times for his Nobel prize in economics. For my money, Krugman for many years now has been the best columnist on the Times' op-ed page, and one of the best in the business, period. His liberalism comes i... Read more