#331 Some take on banks while others lie to protect them (Economics)

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Edition #331

Act 1: Obama takes on bankers – Daily Show
Act 2: Moyers on greed – Moyers’ Journal
Act 3: Economists being right isn’t enough – Counterspin
Act 4: Eliot Spitzer – Colbert Report
Act 5: Hasty freeze on budget – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Obama needs to tell a bank regulation story – Political Scene
Act 7: The gang of five – Slate Magazine
Act 8: Austan Goolsbee on the budget drop – Daily Show
Act 9: Leaked memo on lying to protect banks – Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Word – Manifest Density Economics – Colbert Report

Music:
Lost – Coldplay

Look what you’ve done – JET

Ain’t that unusual – Goo Goo Dolls

Candy everybody wants – 10,000 Maniacs

Sleeping in – The Postal Service

Story of a lonely guy – Blink 182

Cut it out – Anya Marina

Rescue me – Fontella Bass

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Sources:
The Daily Show
Bill Moyers’ Journal
Counterspin
Colbert Report
Rachel Maddow
The Political Scene
Slate.com
The Young Turks

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