What are the root causes of our current economic crisis?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to journalist Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. Robert says we are too eager to blame the Bush administration, because the collapse happened on his watch. But how did free markets and deregulation from earlier administrations set the stage for the crisis? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's needed to fix the economy now? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

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Your Call 120208 A community-based water policy

What should a community-based water policy look like? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the growing push to privatize water. This week, multinationals, including Coca-Cola and Nestle Water, are meeting in San Francisco for a conference called "Corporate Water Footprinting." Environmentalists are having a gathering of their own to challenge corporate control of water. What needs to happen to ensure water remains a fundamental human right and stays in public hands? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests: Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch
Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief, Winnemem Wintu Tribe
Amit Srivastava, Coordinator, International Campaign Against Coca-Cola

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Your Call 030408 Putting Deregulation Back on the Table

Is it time to revisit regulation? On the next Your Call we host a debate about the ideology of deregulation, the theory that putting rule making power in the hands of corporations is good for everybody. After thirty years, what evidence is there that this idea has worked in transportation, energy, financial services and municipal utilities? On election day in Texas and Ohio, the economy was front and center, but why were the rules that run the economy so hidden? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ross Eisenbrey in San Diego
Vice president at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC. Ross is a former commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review and he joins us from the AFL-CIO national meeting in San Diego.

Tom Firey in Washington
Managing editor of the Cato Institute's magazine Regulation. Cato is a libertarian think tank also based in Washington.

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