What should we learn from the financial crisis in Greece?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series and discuss the Greek economic crash and its causes. What does the crisis in Greece tell us about global finance, national sovereignty, and popular resistance? Join us live at 10 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And are there lessons for us here in the U.S. to learn from the Greek experience? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Max Fraad-Wolff, teaches economics in the New School University Graduate Program in International Affairs. His research interests include international financial risks and opportunities.

Costas Panayotakis, teaches Sociology at CUNY's New York City College of Technology and is the author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy, which will be published by Pluto Press in September 2011.

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Where is Cuba's economy headed?

On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by talking about the future of Cuba. The Cuban government recently announced plans to lay off half a million state employees. That's about 10 percent of the state workforce. Who is going to be impacted? What are the economic realities in Cuba today? Join us live at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Why is Cuba restructuring its economy? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Frank Thompson, professor of economics at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He regularly lectures at La Universidad de La Habana.

Geoff Thale, Program Director at Washington Office on Latin America.

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How does Climate Change Affect Food Security?

Is climate change threatening the world's food supply? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our weeklong series on Copenhagen by talking about global food security in the face of climate change. The UN says we need to dramatically change global agricultural policies to address hunger, poverty and climate change. How do we feed the world and become environmentally sustainable?

Join the conversation at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org? How is climate change threatening food security? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Anuradha Mittal, founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute and a food, agriculture and trade expert.

Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA. Josh has also worked as a shepherd, a teacher, a vegetable farmer, an activist, a fisherman, and a baker.

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Can We Afford to Stop Global Warming?

What's the cost-benefit analysis for slowing climate change? On the next Your Call we'll kick off our weeklong programming on climate change, with a conversation on the economic impacts of global warming. Opponents of legislation to combat global warming point to the toll it will take on the economy, but what are the economic risks if we continue on the current path? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. Which of the proposed solutions might actually have economic benefits? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Frank Ackerman is a research fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute and a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, both at Tufts University. He authored Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World.

Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics,Director, Environmental Policy Program, and Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy Program at Center for Integrative Environmental Research at University of Maryland

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Can Capitalism Redeem Itself?

Is a better capitalism possible? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked. He argues that the global financial system needs to be remade from the ground up. But where do we start in building a more just and sustainable system?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. In a globalized economy, are the incentives for gluttony and graft simply too great? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Perkins, an economist and author. His best-known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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How Does Unemployment Insurance Work?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about Unemployment Insurance benefits. With unemployment in California at its highest rate since 1940, lots more people are learning how the system works and where it falls short. What can we learn from the way other states and countries handle unemployment insurance?

You can join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you're grappling with the current system, what do you think needs to change? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Maurice Emsellem, the National Employment Law Project's (NELP) Policy Director

Olga Pierce, a Fellow at ProPublica

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Your Call 092809 Can global regulation create a more sane financial system?

Can global regulation create a more sane financial system? On the next Your Call, we continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy with a pre-taped show about regulation around the globe. The G20 just finished its meeting in Pittsburgh, and financial regulation was high on the agenda, but most countries have been slow to act. Some have done nothing at all. How does the US regulatory response to the financial crisis compare to what's happening in other countries? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

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Your Call 082609 Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa?

Is there a new colonial rush on in Africa? On the next Your Call we will speak with Serge Michel, author of China Safari and scholar Nii Akuettah about increasing Chinese efforts to exploit - and develop - Africa. How is the Chinese approach different from the way the American government has operated on the Continent? Is either a good deal? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can African nations make it without being a client of a major power? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Serge Michel in Geneva
Author of China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. Michel was the West Africa Correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde after stints in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. He won the Albert Londres Prize, France's most prestigious journalistic award, for his work in Iran and is the founder of the Bondy Blog, a citizen journalism project in the suburbs of Paris.

Nii Akuetteh in Washington DC
Independent Africa policy analyst and researcher. He is the former executive director of the Washington, DC-based group Africa Action.

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Your Call 051109 What's next for the anti-globalization movement?

What is the next step for the anti-globalization movement? On the next Your Call we continue our series Agenda for a New Economy and search for the common interests between workers in the U.S. and those in poor countries. We'll speak with John Jeter, one-time foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, now author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Do bad times give us an opportunity to rethink economic development? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Jon Jeter in Los Angeles
From 1999 to 2003 he was the Washington Post's Southern Africa bureau chief before running the Post's bureau in South America from 2003 to 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer twice, in 2000 for a series he did about AIDS in Africa and for a series on race published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1991. He is the author of the forthcoming Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.

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Your Call 042009 A New Deal With China?

Is it time for a new deal with China? On the next Your Call we'll discuss new visions of a trans-Pacific economic arrangement. We are continuing our series on creating the economy we want (not just complaining about the one we have). Can we make out the broad strokes of an economic relationship that helps China create the tens of millions of new jobs they need each year, supports the American working people and does both in an ecologically sustainable way? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the relationship between the U.S. and China change in a way that helps workers on both sides of the Pacific? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sasha Gong in Northern Virginia
Essayist and author of one of the most widely read Chinese language blogs. Gong, a native of China, got her PhD in sociology from Harvard in 1995 and is a former senior program officer of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, AFL-CIO.

Ted Fishman in Chicago
Author of the international best-seller China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, which has been published in twenty-five languages. Fishman is a former commodities trader and journalist who has been published in the NY Times Magazine, the Times of London and Harper's.

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Your Call 033009 What is wealth and who should own it?

What is wealth and who should own it? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Gar Alperovitz, co-author of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance. The top 1% of people in the United State own half of wealth of the nation, and 5% own 70%. Do these people who own so much wealth actually deserve it? You can join the conversation by phone or by sending us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is wealth generated? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland

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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 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 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 093008 Global capitalism and its discontents

What is capitalism? And how is the current crisis changing the way you understand the basic structure of our economy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about economic crisis in the US and its long-term effect on capitalist economies. The current financial meltdown has sparked a debate on whether capitalism is the ideal methodology for wealth creation. What do you think? Is this the end of global capitalism, as we know it? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Robert Brenner is the director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, and the author of The Boom and the Bubble.

J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley

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Your Call 092308 What's ahead for our economy?

What's ahead for the U.S. economy? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with investigative journalist Danny Schechter, author of Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Sub-prime Scandal. Last week, the Treasury Department called for $700 billion to stabilize volatile financial markets. What's in the plan? Is there any transparency? And who's benefiting? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest: Danny Schechter, a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic.

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Your Call 081208 Doha round of world trade talks

What happened to the Doha round of world trade talks? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the WTO talks in Geneva and get an update on the movement opposing free trade and globalization. Last month, negotiations broke down after nine days. So what happened? What role did the U.S. play? Who is benefiting from these trades polices? And nine years after 500,000 people took to the streets of Seattle, how strong is the anti-globalization movement? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Victor Menotti, Program Director with International Forum on Globalization

Deborah James, the Director of International Programs of Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.

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Your Call 042108 What caused the global food crisis?

What's behind the current global food crisis? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Since 2007, there has been a 40 percent rise in food prices worldwide, making rice, corn, and wheat unaffordable for many people. As a result, food riots are on the rise. How did this crisis happen? Who's been impacted? And where should we look for solutions? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Raj Patel, visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley

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