Your Call 060109 Is it time to go beyond antitrust?

Is it time to go beyond antitrust? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the risks of power concentrated in corporations. American antitrust law is meant to fight monopolies. Are there other tools in American law that legislators could use to keep corporations from monopolizing the market? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can we learn from the crisis in the financial market? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gary Reback, one of the nation's most prominent antitrust attorneys, best known for spearheading the efforts that led to the federal lawsuit against Microsoft. He is currently of counsel with Carr & Ferrell LLP.

Jonathan Baker, professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law.

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Your Call 052909 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, President Obama announced his Supreme Court nominee, new Abu Ghraib photos "show rape" and GM is ready to file the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history. We will be joined by independent journalist Anna Badken, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and David Shepardson of Detroit News. Where did you see good reporting this week? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Shepardson, reporter in the Washington Bureau of the Detroit News.

Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate magazine.

Anna Badken, independent reporter

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Your Call 051809 Can local currencies transform our economy?

Can local currencies transform our economy from the bottom up? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about the growing interest in currency production in communities around the country. Thousands of them were used during the Great Depression. How do local currencies work today? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How do you start one where you live? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Susan Witt, Executive Director, E. F. Schumacher Society and Co-founder of BerkShares.

Paul Glover, founder of the Ithaca Hours program

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Your Call 042709 How much of the economic crisis is simply about fraud?

How much of the current economic crisis is simply about fraud? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with William Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. He says the financial industry has brought the economy to its knees. So how did they get away with it? You can join us by calling in or by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What will it take to bring the banks out of the shadows? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
William Black, former senior bank regulator, best known for his thwarted but later vindicated efforts to prosecute S&L crisis fraudster Charles Keating. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.

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Your Call 040609 What's the status of the SEC?

What's the status of the Securities and Exchange Commission? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the SEC's role in the financial crisis. The agency has been criticized for lapses in oversight, costing investors billions of dollars. So what does it take to overhaul this agency? And who is Mary Schapiro, the new SEC chairperson? You can join the conversation by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What role does the SEC play in regulating the financial market? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Business Administration at Georgetown University

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, executive director of The Bard Center; Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College

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Your Call 033109 Has the economic meltdown made us rethink our needs?

Has the economic meltdown caused us to rethink how much we really need? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about consumption and our ecological footprint. Every year, Americans discard four-fifths of a ton of trash. We generated 251 million tons of trash in 2006 alone. How have we created all this waste? You can join the conversation by phone or by sending us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What steps can we take to help the ecosystem and decrease the demand for stuff we don't need? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Eric Sanderson, associate director of Wildlife Conservation Society's Living Landscapes Program and co-creator of National Geographic's "Human Footprint"

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Your Call 032709 Media Roundtable

Is there anyway to prevent ideologues from taking over the economy again? On the next Your Call we speak with Larry Elliott, Economics Editor for the Guardian and co-author of The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith In Markets Has Cost Us Our Future. His book is a survey of the devastation left behind by the economic theorists who laid the foundation for unfettered corporate capitalism: Milton Friedman, Frederic Von Mises and Ayn Rand, whom he calls the New Olympians. With a religious faith in the ability of the market to provide heaven on earth, control of our economy was given over in return for three magic beans. The result was not prosperity but sluggish growth in living standards, a debt explosion, and now a major crisis of international proportions as a vast borrowing bubble starts to deflate. How do we replace the fundamentalists and build a pragmatic, resilient and sustainable economy? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Larry Elliott in London
Economics Editor of the Guardian and co-author of The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith In Markets Has Cost Us Our Future with Dan Atkinson.

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Your Call 032409 Is it possible to fix Wall Street?

Is it possible to fix Wall Street? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy. He argues that spending trillions of dollars to restore this system to its previous condition is a reckless waste of time and resources. How should we rebuild the economy? You can join us by phone or email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy

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Your Call 031209 What's in it for California?

How does President Obama's housing plan help Bay Area homeowners in trouble? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the $75 billion national effort to forestall foreclosures. Obama's plan stands in stark contrast to the inaction of the Bush Administration to directly help homeowners in favor of the banks, but less than 10% of mortgages in the Bay Area qualify. 40% of foreclosures nationally are here in California. Does the only national program to turn back the tide stop at the Sierra Nevada? You can send us an email anytime to feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Did you find a way to save your house? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Eller in San Francisco
Head Organizer & Northern California Campaign Director for ACORN. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families working together for social justice and stronger communities.

Ginna Green in Oakland
Spokesperson for the California office of the Center for Responsible Lending. CRL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by fighting abusive financial practices.

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Your Call 022509 Will credit card companies fall next?

Will the credit card companies be the next to fall? On the next Your Call, we find out what happens now that card issuers have raised interest rates, added new fees, lowered credit limits and even shut down accounts. Americans recycle $882 billion dollars in debt, month after month; as unemployment sails past 5 million, how long before defaults skyrocket? You can send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join live at 11 am. What happens when the downturn turns on plastic? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jose Garcia in New York
Senior research and policy associate at Demos with over ten years of experience working on civil rights, census advocacy, and socio-demographic analysis. Co-author of Up to Our Eyeballs: The Hidden Truths and Consequences of Debt in Today's America.

David Lazarus in LA
Business & consumer columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the paper in August 2007. He previously worked as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a nightly radio talk show host for San Francisco's KGO Radio.

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Your Call 021709 Will the stimulus help people in need?

Will the $787 billion economic plan help people in need? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the short term and long term affects the 1,100-page package is expected to have on the US economy. You can join the conversation by phone or by sending us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Who will benefit from the plan and who will be left out? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Grabell, an investigative reporter for ProPublica

Alexander J. Field, executive director, Economic History Association; Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University

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Your Call 020909 Should we nationalize American banking?

Should we nationalize the banks? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with economists about the future of the banking system. More than 300 billion dollars was spent to save Bank of America and hundreds of other banks. Taxpayers are now the biggest shareholders in Bank of America, with about 6 percent of the stock, and in Citigroup, with 7.8 percent. Is the era of laissez-faire capitalism over? And will nationalization of the banking system save the financial system? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.

Anwar M. Shaikh, Professor at the Department of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School University.

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Your Call 020609 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week while millions of Americans filed their taxes early to get their tax refunds, two of President Obama's cabinet picks were taken down for not paying their taxes. We'll speak with Greg Mitchell, editor in chief of Editor and Publisher magazine and author of the newly released How Obama Won; New York Times labor and workplace reporter Steven Greenhouse, author of The Big Squeeze, now in paperback; and Jonathan Stein, Washington correspondent for Mother Jones magazine. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Greg Mitchell
Editor in chief of Editor and Publisher magazine and author of the newly released How Obama Won

Steven Greenhouse in New York
New York Times labor and workplace reporter and author of The Big Squeeze, now in paperback

Jonathan Stein in Washington
Washington correspondent for Mother Jones magazine.

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Your Call 122308 The downturn hits home

How is the economic crisis coming home for you? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the impact of recession on ordinary people. The state's unemployment rate has jumped to 8.4 percent its highest rate since the summer of 1994. Bay Area food banks and charity groups are being overwhelmed by huge jumps in requests for help as they are trying to cope with lack of resources. What unexpected effects is recession having on the way you or your neighbors live? Are you finding ways to cope? And what is in store for the future? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Ken Jacobs is the Chair of UC Berkeley's Labor Center

David Knego, Executive Director, Curry Senior Center

Rev. Cecil Williams, Founder of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church. Glide is one of San Francisco's largest nonprofit agencies helping the poor and homeless.

Larry Sly, Executive Director of Contra Costa and Solano Food Bank

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Your Call 120408 Understanding the Collapse

Have global efforts to resuscitate our economy done any good? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss what we know about the ongoing financial, consumer and economic crises. By now, most Americans folks have at least a generally accurate understanding of how we got into the mess. Are the agencies crafting a response getting the details right? How have hard times hit your house? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: John Schmitt in Washington
Senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He has also worked with the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the Global Policy Network and the International Labor Organization.

Chris Carey
Editor of BailoutSleuth.com, an online publication monitoring the government's purchase, and eventual sale, of bad mortgages and other distressed assets, tracking and analyzing deals and providing information about the companies and people involved in them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Greece
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University & visiting professor of marketing at London Business School. He is the former managing director and head trader at Union Bank of Switzerland. His most recent book is The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

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Your Call 111407 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable when we look at the week that was in the mainstream, alternative and international press. This week the beneficiaries of the federal bail-out morphed again, President-elect Obama began setting a national policy agenda and the political activists the Yes Men distributed a million copies of fake New York Times announcing the end of the war in Iraq. We'll talk with the editor of BailoutSleuth.com, John Nichols from The Nation and Ken Silverstein from The Atlantic on the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests: Ken Silverstein in Washington
Washington Editor and author of the Washington Babylon column for Harper's Magazine

John Nichols in Madison Wisconsin
Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine

Chris Carey in St. Louis
Editor and president of Sharesleuth.com and bailoutsleuth.com. He specializes in digging through SEC filings, court records and other documents to find information that companies try to bury, and in tracking the activities of known securities-law violators.

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