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I like to think of the oil market as an opera, where big dramas get played out by colorful outsized characters ranging from OPEC, China and Russia to currency hedgers, militias in Nig... (article)
I talk and write frequently about things that can be done, both in the public and private sectors, to increase household savings in the United States. But a more primitive question i... (article)
The plight of the U.S. automaker back on Capitol Hill (episode)
"The best way to get them to change the way they do business is have them go into bankruptcy." --Alex Taylor on U.S. auto makers
One of our listeners was particularly proud of the selection of Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General: <mp3 audio="http://audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/holder-barbados.mp3" width="437" />
"A Democrat hasn't come from Alaska to Washington in nearly 30 years." --Libby Casey on the changing Alaskan political landscape Current U.S. Senate party affiliati...
"We believe that we are going to see a renaissance and more of a return to a savings culture." --Jeff Carter, on the transformation of U.S. banks
"From the beginning, the arbitrary aspect of the of the Treasury bailout has frightened a lot of observers." --Amity Shlaes on the economic crisis
"This time we're hitting the skids as a country with the families already deeply in debt; that does not bode well for where we're headed for the next few years." --Elizabeth Warr...
"If you can plan ahead two days in the kitchen, rather than just for tonight, you can go a long way toward saving tons of money -- just by avoiding those urges to go out and buy...
"Just a few days after it was put in they could see it had actually grown into her body." --Matthew Hill on a windpipe transplant using stem cells