What Have We Learned from the Great Depression?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. He chronicles the tragic tale of the world's four most powerful bankers who caused the 1930s depression. What does that crisis tell us about the reforms we need now? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do we have a better grasp of the economy today or are we headed for another global depression? It's your Call with, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Liaquat Ahamed, a board member of the Rohatyn Group, and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Brookings Institution.

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Your Call 082009 What's the state of student loans?

Is the home mortgage crisis over? As everyone looks for signs of recovery from the economic collapse, what's the state of home mortgages? On the next Your Call, we'll talk to the creators of American Casino, a documentary that investigated the home mortgage crisis as it was happening. What risk is left in this issue? And has the government response dealt with the major, fundamental problems? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m.

Guests:
Leslie Cockburn in San Francisco
Director of American Casino. Cockburn, a San Francisco native, has been producing television news for nearly thirty years, for 60 minutes, PBS Frontline and ABC. She's won Polk, Columbia Dupont, Overseas Press Club and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism awards. She is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.

Andrew Cockburn in San Francisco
Co-producer of American Casino. Cockburn is regular contributing author for National Geographic and CounterPunch, and has written several books, most recently Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy.

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Your Call 081009 Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression

On the next Your Call we continue to discuss an Agenda for a New Economy: Depression & the Depression. What's the psychological impact of the economic collapse? How do we weather a national storm of anxiety and depression? What's the effect on families and kids? And what resources are available for people whose change in economic circumstances has led to depression or worse?

We'll be joined by Dr. Harvey Brenner, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Dr. David Spiegel, director of the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How is the recession affecting us emotionally and what can we do about it? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you. Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255.

Guests:
Dr. Harvey Brenner, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and at the School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of North Texas. Dr. Brenner has written extensively on the relationship between the economy and our emotional well being.

Dr. David Spiegel is the director of the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Your Call 022108 Dr. Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb

Are too many Americans taking anti-depressants? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Dr. Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation. Between 1998 and 2002, the use of antidepressants rose by half. In 2006, over 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the U.S. Americans buy two-thirds of the world’s antidepressants. How do we know when a drug is over-prescribed? Has the promise of a simple cure pathologized normal sadness? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Dr. Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb.

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