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Podcast for Saturday, November 22, 2008 [ 4:30:40 | 123.9 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (327)

This is Hell! presents “The Best of the Worst of the Economy: America’s Inevitable Economic Collapse in Hellish Review.”

• From February 16, John Miller, a professor of economics at Wheaton College who writes for Dollar and Sense. We talked with John about his latest article, “Stormier Weather: The economic recovery that’s been officially underway since late 2001 is probably over—too bad many Americans never got to experience it.” Dollars & Sense had these kind words about our on-air conversation with John:
• From April 5, Jeff Faux, founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epinet.org/) where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article as of this date was a piece in The Nation entitled, “Is This The Big One?” Jeff is also a contributing editor to American Prospect and a member of the editorial board of Dissent.
• From April 19, Michael Hudson, a former Wall Street economist whose specialization was in the balance of payments and real estate at Chase Manhattan Bank, Arthur Anderson, and later at the Hudson Institute. In 1990, he helped establish the world’s first sovereign debt fund for Scudder Stevens & Clark. Michael was Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s chief economic advisor in the recent Democratic primary presidential campaign. He has also advised the US, Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments, as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City, he is the author of, most recently, “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” (Pluto Press). The week of this interview, Michael wrote the article, “Hillary Joins the Vast, Rightwing Financial Conspiracy.”
• From July 5, Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Dean is the author of “The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.” He also has a blog, “Beat the Press,” where he discusses the media’s coverage of economic issues. You can find it at the American Prospect’s web site. Dean had just written the article, “Help Workers, Not Wall Street,” for the Guardian.

Our live irregular correspondents were:

• live from Budapest, Todd Williams was the host of the recently canceled Hungarian TV show “Feszti Korkep” …
• Jeff Dorchen delivered a ‘Moment of Truth’ …
• and John K. Wilson, founder of collegefreedom.org, whose blog you can find at http://collegefreedom.blogspot.com. John is also author of “Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies” and “Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest” (Paradigm Publishers).