What do you want to know about how banks operate?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the differences between the too big to fail banks, community banks, and credit unions. According to the Credit Union National Association, last month, over 650,000 people moved $4.5 billion out of the big banks into smaller banks and credit unions. How do small banks and credit unions do business differently? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about your bank? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Bill Peterson, Chief Credit Officer at New Resource Bank

Rob Johnson, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute

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What is responsible wealth?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with the one percent who are publicly supporting the 99%. Several groups comprised of the 1% are calling for more equality and higher taxes. Who are the 1%? Millionaire households now have at least $45.9 trillion in wealth. What are their obligations to the rest of us? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you're in the 1% -- how do you see your role in society? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Burke Stansbury is a communications specialist for nonprofit groups, and has been loosely involved with the protests in Washington, D.C. (known as Occupy K St), donating homemade food, tarps and money.

Christian Weller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Massachusetts.

Garrett Gruener is the founder of Ask.com and the co-founder and director of the venture capital firm Alta Partners and he is the member of Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength which wants President Obama to raise the taxes paid by the rich -- including themselves.

John Harrington is President of Harrington Investments, which since 1982 has been a leader in socially responsible investing and shareholder advocacy.

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How could the Slow Money movement help local food economies?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the Slow Money movement, which aims to connect small farmers and food entrepreneurs with investors. How promising is this economic model? And who is benefiting? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's in store for the future of Slow Money both on a national level and regionally? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Woody Tasch, president of the newly formed NGO Slow Money

Mason Arnold, founder and CEO of Greenling, the first and largest viable grocery delivery service in Austin and San Antonio

Marco Vangelisti, private investor, a founding member of Slow Money and an adviser to Ecocity Builders

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Is Wall Street's crisis our crisis?

Standard & Poor's downgrading of the US debt rating has everyone watching the global financial markets. On the next Your Call, we'll ask if that's the right place to look for signs about the health of the American economy. Will the current instability matter to the unemployed? Or have an impact on the widening wealth gap between black and Hispanic families and their white counterparts? And why is big finance still setting the terms of our economic discussion? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Bill Black, an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).

Roderick Harrison, Associate Professor of Urban Sociology, Stratification, Social Inequality at Howard University and the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the debt ceiling debate and President Obama's decision to remove Elizabeth Warren's nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We'll also discuss the current situation in Libya. We'll be joined by Alternet's Joshua Holland, ProPublica's Jake Bernstein and the Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jake Bernstein, a business and financial reporter for ProPublica.

Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.

Doug Saunders, the London-based European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail and author of Arrival City.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the financial crisis and find out why no one has been held accountable. We'll also talk about coverage of private contractors and the revolutionary uprising in Libya. We'll be joined by investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, Propublica's Jake Bernstein and the Guardian's Martin Chulov will join us from Benghazi, Libya. Join us live at 10 and send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tim Shorrock, an investigative journalist and author of Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence.

Jake Bernstein, journalist with Propublica.

Martin Chulov, The Guardian's Iraq correspondent. He is currently reporting from Benghazi, Libya.

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What lessons do the protests in Europe have for the U.S.?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the civil unrest across western Europe in response to austerity measures. Fees for public education in the U.K. are going up, retirement pensions in France are being cut, unemployment for Italy's young population is at a record high. So how will these demonstrations, whether violent or peaceful, affect economic policies in Europe? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does this approach compare with response to the debt crisis in the U.S.? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Laurie Penny, reporter for New Statesmen

Costas Panayotakis, assistant professor of social science at New York City College of Technology

Eric Reguly, European business correspondent for The Globe and Mail

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Why aren't banks lending?

On the next Your Call, we continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at why financial institutions are clamping down on lending. In 2009 lending contracted 7.4%. Why are individuals and businesses still having a hard time borrowing? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the continuing home foreclosure crisis affecting people who'd like to get loans now? And who has the power to make the banks loosen their purse strings? That's on Monday's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Liz Ryan Murray, senior policy analyst at National People's Action and co-author of the report "Gaming the System."

Rob Larson, Assistant Prof. of Economics at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Indiana

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Will Main Street Replace Wall Street?

On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by speaking with David Korten about the second edition of his book, Agenda for a New Economy. Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and each day brings scandalous new revelations of Wall Street corruption. What will it take to make the fundamental policy changes desperately needed to achieve real recovery? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. David Korten is a trained economist, chair of the board of Yes! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living economies. He is out with an expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's speech on Iraq. How did media look back at Iraq's past seven years? We'll also talk about economic news. Who is asking the right questions? We'll be joined by the former NY Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston, Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey and Guardian's Martin Chulov. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
David Cay Johnston, a columnist for Tax Notes and former tax reporter with NY Times

Martin Chulov, Guardian's Iraq correspondent. He has reported from the Middle East since 2005.

Annie Lowrey, economic reporter with The Washington Independent

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Who is on the debt panel?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by focusing on President Obama's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Who's on the Commission and how did they get there? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What will be on the chopping block when it releases its findings in December? What's the role of the Peter Peterson Foundation and its town halls and how are they shaping the national debate? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Lightman, McClatchy's correspondent in Washington DC
Jeff Faux, founder and distinguished fellow, Economic Policy Institute

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What's the status of the Financial Reform Bill?

What's the status of the Financial Reform Bill? On the next Your Call, we'll continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series. The Senate and the House are meeting to iron out a final financial reform bill. With heavy lobbying by the big banks, what's being debated, what will stay in the bill, and what will be thrown out? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where is financial reform? And what's needed to fundamentally change the financial system? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Jane D'Arista, a research associate at PERI and the co-coordinator of the Economists' Committee for Stable, Accountable, Fair, and Efficient Financial Reform (SAFER)

Heather Booth is the Director of Americans for Financial Reform.

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Who should pay for the financial crisis?

What should happen to those who created the financial crisis? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Danny Schechter, director of the documentary film, Plunder: The Crime of our Time. He argues that Wall Street has essentially committed widespread fraud and white-collar crime of the highest magnitude, so who should be held accountable?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What has changed on Wall Street? And what should fundamentally change so we don't find ourselves in the same situation again? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Danny Schechter, an independent filmmaker, and an investigative journalist

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What can economists contribute to public policy?

What can economists contribute to the making of good public policy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with noted economist Dean Baker, author of Taking Economics Seriously. He tackles entrenched beliefs about bank regulation and health care by asking "What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently?"

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you think economists could help save our economy--if they were taken seriously? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Dean Baker--Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. and author of Taking Economics Seriously

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the upcoming general election in Great Britain, the human and environmental cost of the oil rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico and the debate about Wall Street on Capitol Hill. And what was done well? We'll be joined by Propublica's Jake Bernstein, Huffington Post's Marcus Baram and Globe and Mail London Bureau chief's Doug Saunders.

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jake Bernstein, author, and an investigative reporter for ProPublica.
Marcus Baram, a news editor at the Huffington Post.
Doug Saunders, the chief of the Globe and Mail's London-based European Bureau.

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Could Financial Reform Curb Wall Street?

Will the financial reform plan that's currently on the table prevent another economic crisis? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at financial reform. Will it fundamentally change the way Wall Street operates? Will it end bank bailouts? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What laws do you think should be put in place to protect citizens? Is it even possible to get a good bill with Wall Street and Washington so closely aligned? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Kevin Hall--National Economics Correspondent for McClatchy newspapers

Rob Johnson--Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute

Mary Bottari--Director of the Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and editor of the www.BanksterUSA.org site for bank-busting activists

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