October 24 2008 show notes


  • "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont. Alan Greenspan's testimony. His run in with Alan Greenspan in 2003.

  • Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University.

  • Value of labor rant. People don't create jobs, except government creating the environment for them.

  • 'Anything goes" Friday.

  • Guest: Janine Boneparth of Code Pink, who tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove.

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Friday 24 October '08 show




  • A CNN commentator asked on air if today is the day the stock market will really crash.
  • "As I wrote last March: those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder

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