Economics
#338 They’re dickholes, but they’re smart (Economics)
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Edition #338
Act 1: Rush Limbaugh wants you to get screwed – Young Turks
Act 2: Area CEO doesn’t have time for this crap – The Onion
Act 3: Inherent racism in Tea Party movement – Countdown
Act 4: Thomas Frank Part 1 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 5: New cereal for poor stays crunchy in water – The Onion
Act 6: Thomas Frank Part 2 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 7: David Brooks says to raise taxes on middle class – Counterspin
Act 8: Devastating quotes from top economists – Young Turks
Act 9: Make it rain – Daily Show
Act 10: Obama out to lunch on banker bonuses – The Progressive
Act 11: B of A attacked through YouTube – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Fire Departments Billing Homeowners to Put Out Fires! – Young Turks
Music:
Smile like you mean it – The Killers
Not enough time – Inxs
Look at you – My Morning Jacket
Hard luck story – Men at work
Happy meal – The Cardigans
Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Young folks – Peter Bjorn And John
Where do I begin – The Chemical Brothers
Radio – One Ring Zero
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – The Smiths
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#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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#330 Impending Mending or Coming Crash? (Economics)
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Edition #330
Act 1: Financial inquiry report – Daily Show
Act 2: Another economic disaster coming – Young Turks
Act 3: Banker are America’s new thugs – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Bernie Madoff M.D. – Slate
Act 5: Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs – Colbert Report
Act 6: Obama starts to revamp economic team – Young Turks
Act 7: Regulation fundamentally works – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: David Walker’s plan for the economy – Daily Show
Act 9: Obama finally standing up to banks – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obama’s Bailout Fee: Is It Enough – Young Turks
Music:
Working class hero – Exit Clov
Jump jive and wail – Brian Setzer Orchestra
Say hey – Michael Franti & Spearhead
All will be well – The Gabe Dixon Band
The Bubble Machine – Leslie Bricusse (From Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
This is twice now – Lydia
I saved the world today – The Eurythmics
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#324 When you want to cry, laugh (Economics)
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Edition #324
Act 1: Flight Delay – Daily Show
Act 2: Predicting economies Part 1 – This American Life
Act 3: Smiley-face dollar to boost economy – The Onion
Act 4: Predicting economies Part 2 – This American Life
Act 5: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big to Fail – Daily Show
Act 6: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 1 – Colbert Report
Act 7: Norway returns to a pillage-based economy – The Onion
Act 8: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 2 – Colbert Report
Act 9: NY Times exposes terrible big bank scam – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
American Idle – Daily Show
Music:
Don’t you – Simple Minds
Once around the block – Badly Drawn Boy
Crazy – Seal
Making me nervous – Brad Sucks
Island in the sun – Weezer
Catch my disease – Ben Lee
La Noy̩e РYann Tiersen
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt and Kim
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This American Life
The Onion
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
The Young Turks
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#318 Disaster Economics (Podcast)
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Edition #318
Act 1: Obama caving in to Wall St again – The Young Turks
Act 2: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 1 – This American Life
Act 3: Water balloon attacks hurting bottom line – The Onion
Act 4: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 2 – This American Life
Act 5: Joining the tea-baggers – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: John Perkins on the economic crash Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: US-owned GM produces the Pelosi-Boehner – The Onion
Act 8: John Perkins on the economic crash Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: Government by organized money – Thom Hartmann
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Biden on the economic recovery – Daily Show
Music:
Nothing is good enough – Aimee Mann
S̩n̩gal Fast-Food РAmadou & Mariam
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Remember Jonathan (Messenger Of The Sun album) – Cyrille Verdeaux
Smokescreen – Flying Blind
Under the milky way – Seven Nations
You’re the best around – Joe Esposito
All For Swinging You Around – The New Pornographers
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#314 Pride, greed, vanity and gluttony (Podcast)
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Edition #314
Act 1: Really Goldman Sachs?! – SNL
Act 2: Spitzer on the financial bailout – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: MSNBC Ratigan bashes corporate communists – The Young Turks
Act 4: The root of the problem is campaign finance – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Global economy faces danger from below – The Onion
Act 6: Terror-industrial complex – Countdown
Act 7: How Dems are protecting capitalism – The Young Turks
Act 8: Organizing the tea parties – Thom Hartmann
Act 9: Goldman Sachs doing God’s work – Colbert Report
Act 10: Child labor endorsing, pro-slavery freaks – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The history of boom and bust cycles in US economics – ThomHartmann
Music:
Kick drum heart – The Avett Brothers
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) – The Decemberists
99 Red Balloons – Nena
Deep water – Pansy Division
Ready For The Good Times – Shakira
Goodbye stranger – Supertramp
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt and Kim
Take five – Dave Brubeck
Gold dust woman – Hole
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#306 Democracy for sale
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Edition #306
Act 1: Supreme Court on the verge of humanizing corporations – Colbert Report
Act 2: Looking forward on changing our economics – Bill Maher
Act 3: Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court – Colbert Report
Act 4: Obama is letting the banks off the hook – The Young Turks
Act 5: Thousands of unemployed robots join the military – The Onion
Act 6: Wall streeters weigh life after ‘giant pool of money’ – NPR
Act 7: Krugman on Palin and economics – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Dow rallies after chimpanzee rings opening bell – The Onion
Act 9: Big money vs. the people – The Young Turks
Music:
Different People – No Doubt
Bleeding me – Metalica
And it spread – The Avett Brothers
Love you till the end – The Pogues
Give it up – The Goodmen
Nothing Is Good Enough – Amiee Mann
American Pie – Don McLean
Ring my bell – Anita Ward
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#300 Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops (Podcast)
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Edition #300
Act 1: Laying off the robots – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: The Lehman shock – Slate.com
Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool – The Onion
Act 4: Consensus On Fixing Financial System Erodes – NPR
Act 5: Krugman on the ‘return of depression economics – Colbert Report
Act 6: Hannity misleads on unemployment numbers – Counterspin
Act 7: Discussing Lehman Bros and the economic politics – New Yorker
Act 8: 1-year anniversary of Lehman Bros collapse – Daily Show
Act 9: Deficits as the bogeyman – Counterspin
Act 10: Area coach calls star athlete ‘too big to fail’ – The Onion
Act 11: Bush vs. Clinton Do tax cuts work? – The Young Turks
Act 12: Good news / bad news America’s recession – Daily Show
Music:
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 [Main Title] – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Never recover – The Cardigans
Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Philip Glass
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
Bury my with my car – Ben Sollee
Little Lies – Fleetwood Mac
Save me – Aimee Mann
Torn Blue Foam Couch – Grand archives
Trouble me – 10,000 maniacs
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games – Of Montreal
Keepsake – State Radio
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#280 Reaping the results of corruption and greed (Podcast)
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Act 1: F#@ked or Fixed – Economic Crisis – Daily Show
Act 2: Regulating AIG – Who fell asleep on the job? – NPR
Act 3: Phantom Wealth – Thom Hartmann
Act 4: Peter Shiff on the economy – Daily Show
Act 5: Stuff the bankers, starve the kids – The Young Turks
Act 6: Recession forces U.S. to dip into Guam – The Onion
Act 7: Crazy Eddie’s house sale – Slate Magazine – Slate
Act 8: Justin Fox on the economy – Daily Show
Act 9: Using psychology to save you from yourself – NPR
Music:
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake
Here it goes again – Ok Go
Phantom of the opera – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
Let go – Frou Frou
We didn’t start the fire – Billy Joel
Crazy Maze – Desree
Take a chance – The Magic Numbers
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#267 Why and how banks are going down (Podcast)
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Act 1: American’s having sex at home – The Onion
Act 2: Credit card holders bill of rights – Colbert Report
Act 3: How to take down a bank Part 1 – This American Life
Act 4: Limbaugh’s racist take on Obama’s economic plan – Counterspin
Act 5: Closing auto dealerships by mail – The Daily Show
Act 6: How to take down a bank Part 2 – This American Life
Act 7: 1/4 cent “soda tax” – Colbert Report
Act 8: Productivity up and wages down equals crash – Thom Hartmann
Act 9: We all just bought a car company – The Daily Show
Music:
I want you to want me – Cheap Trick
Killing for love – José González
I shall not be moved – Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
About today – The National
Bottle it up – Sara Bareilles
Le Banquet – Yann Tiersen
God – The Dodos
Teenage dirtbag – Wheatus
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#260 Worked up, angry and totally misdirected (Podcast)
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Act 1: Cutting the defense budget – The Daily Show
Act 2: Republican fake outrage – The Young Turks
Act 3: Cutting the defense budget – The Colbert Report
Act 4: AIG looking to rebrand – LeShow
Act 5: Tea party at The Alamo – The Clolbert Report
Act 6: Conservatives about teabagging – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Fox News supporting the Tea Parties – On the Media
Act 8: The other meaning of ‘teabagging’ – The Colbert Report
Act 9: Hardball debating economic systems – The Young Turks
Music:
You’re the best – Joe Esposito
Crash – The Primitives
Welcome to the machine – Pink Floyd
My name is Jonas – Weezer
It’s my party – Lesley Gore
Tea for two – Mambo All-Stars
New shoes – Paolo Nutini
You sexy thing – Hot Chocolate
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#257 Money, power, politics and jokes (Podcast)
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Act 1: Controversy in Obama’s budget – CounterSpin
Act 2: NY/DC circle of power – The Young Turks
Act 3: Class war in the budget – CounterSpin
Act 4: Interview with Mike Davis – Bill Moyers Journal
Act 5: Fort Knox liquidates for $85 – The Onion
Act 6: Rhetoric about “socialism” just partisan poppycock – Bill Moyers Journal
Act 7: Repatriation taxes Part 1 – The Young Turks
Act 8: ‘We are all socialists now’ – CounterSpin
Act 9: Repatriation taxes Part 2 – The Young Turks
Act 10: Interview with Chris Hedges Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 11: U.S. Economy gunned down – The Onion
Act 12: Interview with Chris Hedges Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Music:
Come on-a my house – Rosemary Clooney
A change is gonna come – Ben Sollee
My Love – The Bird and the Bee
Breathe me – Sia
Cobrastyle – Robyn
Suite for Solo Cello No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: V. Gavotte I/II – Yo-Yo Ma
Running scared – Roy Orbison
The Secret Agent Ending РCello Octet Conjunto Ib̩rico & Elias Arizcuren
How I feel around you – Violaine
Pease of mind – Finniston
The Arguement – This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
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#256 Crumbling Financial Fundamentals (Podcast)
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Act 1: The Madoff Decade – The Young Turks
Act 2: Congress establishes new department – The Onion
Act 3: They’re just not that into you – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: The new guy at the commerce department – The Young Turks
Act 5: Snakes to receive government stimulous – The Onion
Act 6: Marginal tax rates explained – Conceptual Guerilla Radio
Act 7: Work created by the government isn’t really work – The Young Turks
Act 8: Looking at the record of CNBC – The Daily Show
Act 9: Audio of bankers discussing post-bailout bonuses – The Young Turks
Act 10: Correcting the record on Jim Cramer – The Daily Show
Music:
You’ve Got Everything Now – The Smiths
Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing – Jack Johnson
Your Heart Is An Empty Room – Death Cab For Cutie
Your woman – White Town
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
Goodbye stranger – Supertramp
Naive – The Kooks
Banditos – The Refreshments
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#254 Missing: Stable economic system, if found please contact owner (Podcast)
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Act 1: Executive pay out of control – The Young Turks
Act 2: Unemployed without benefits – NPR
Act 3: Keynsian Economics Part 1 – This American Life
Act 4: AT&T lays off 30,000 automated operators – The Onion
Act 5: Keynsian Economics Part 2 – This American Life
Act 6: Recorded CEO conference call Part 1 – The Young Turks
Act 7: CEO lays off 5,000 workers to impress girlfriend – The Onion
Act 8: Recorded CEO conference call Part 2 – The Young Turks
Act 9: These people are thieves – Maron vs. Seder
Act 10: Enough carrots, time to use the stick – The Young Turks
Music:
Daylight robbery – Imogen Heap
On the turning away – Pink Floyd
The artifact & Living – Michael Andrews
Go ahead – Rilo Kiley
Slipping away – Michael Andrews
Notorious – Duran Duran
Someday You Will Be Loved – Death Cab For Cutie
The Czar of Munster – Seamus Egan
Clean and sober – Anya Marina
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Lagging economy, lacking new ideas (Podcast)
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Act 1: Destructive myth about Big 3 autoworkers – CounterSpin
Act 2: Union activist on the Big 3 Part 1 – Democracy NOW!
Act 3: Reclaiming Detroit – NPR
Act 4: Union activist on the Big 3 Part 2 – Democracy NOW!
Act 5: Minds in the toilet – Slate.com
Act 6: Activist clamor for White House organic garden – NPR
Act 7: Robots, not roads – Slate.com
Act 8: 50 cent gax tax proposal – Car Talk
Music:
Starting now – Ingrid Michaelson
Only ones who know – Arctic Monkeys
Friends and family – Trik Turner
I just want you – Ozzy Osbourn
Eclipse – Apoptygma Berzerk
Move you – Anya Marina
Just a ride – Jem
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