Episode 510

• The wages of austerity in the UK
• Brain drain in Europe
• Bernanke on QE3
• The bubble in farm land prices
• the Fed’s booming balance sheet
• Joe Nocera turns 60, freaks out about his 401(k)
• Mann and Orenstein call it like it is
• The Paycheck Fairness Act
• The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Episode 509: He Slimed Me

• Global meat consumption per capita
• The end of welfare as we know it
• 2009 NYT story on pink slime
• Canada drops the penny
• Beef is Beef – the industry’s response

 

 

Episode 508: Limiting Principles

• Obama attacks the Ryan budget
• New Jersey copies-and-pastes right-wing legislation
• ALEC writes the laws
• Gonzales v. Raich
• 2nd graders from 9/11 now ready to serve
• John White, the predecessor to George Zimmerman?