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 091908 Media Roundtable with Thomas Frank

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we're spending the hour with Thomas Frank, the columnist who holds down the left end of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. His new book is called The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Frank argues that conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state. Could a Democratic victory reverse the damage? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest: Thomas Frank, author and columnist for the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page.

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Your Call 022508 The Big Rip-Off

How are America's richest being subsidized by the rest of us? On the next Your Call we welcome back the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter, David Cay Johnston. Johnston's beat is the inscrutable world of the federal tax system and his new book is called Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With The Bill). How do the wealthiest Americans direct subsidies and rig markets in their favor and what can we do about it? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
David Cay Johnston in Rochester
Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times investigative reporter has spent his 40-year career exposing collusion between government officials and private interests as they enrich the rich and beggar the poor. His new book is just out in stores and is called Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With The Bill).

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Your Call 012208 Can Business End Poverty?

Is a new business model the key to ending poverty? On the next Your Call we welcome Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank to discuss how business will beat poverty. The Grameen Bank made small loans to the very poor and freed millions of people from the bonds of abject poverty. In his new book, Creating a World Without Poverty, Yunus lays out his vision for a global marketplace that values the whole human being, not just profits. How can we harness the dynamism of the free market to end poverty? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Prize winning founder of the Grameen Bank and author of Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business And The Future Of Capitalism

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