(2009/09/26) Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops (MP3)

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Jay Tomlinson

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🗓️ 26 September 2009

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Edition #300 Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops Act 1: Laying off the robots - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 2: The Lehman shock - Slate.com Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool - The Onion Act 4: Consensus On Fixing Financial System Erodes - NPR Act 5: Krugman on the 'return of depression economics - Colbert Report Act 6: Hannity misleads on unemployment numbers - Counterspin Act 7: Discussing Lehman Bros and the economic politics - New Yorker Act 8: 1-year anniversary of Lehman Bros collapse - Daily Show Act 9: Deficits as the bogeyman - Counterspin Act 10: Area coach calls star athlete 'too big to fail' - The Onion Act 11: Bush vs. Clinton Do tax cuts work? - The Young Turks Act 12: Good news / bad news America's recession - Daily Show Music: Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 [Main Title] - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Never recover - The Cardigans Kyoko's House ("stage blood is not enough") - Philip Glass Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day Bury my with my car - Ben Sollee Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac Save me - Aimee Mann Torn Blue Foam Couch - Grand archives Trouble me - 10,000 maniacs Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal Keepsake - State Radio Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Audible.
0:02.6	Get your free audiobook download by visiting audiblepodcast.com slash best.
0:08.7	Welcome to the 300th episode of the Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from Weight
0:13.0	Weight Don't Tell Me, Slate Magazine, The Onion Radio News, NPR, The Colbert Report,
0:18.4	Counter-Spin, The New Yorker, The Daily Show, and The Young Turks.
0:22.4	Charlie, the New York Times reports that as Japan faces its worst recession in a generation,
0:34.9	many companies in the country have been forced to lay off their most efficient workers.
0:38.7	So who's getting fired?
0:40.7	Tats.
0:41.7	No?
0:42.7	Dogs.
0:43.7	No.
0:44.7	Robots.
0:45.7	Yes, robots.
0:46.7	Very good.
0:47.7	It has the most working robots of any country, but as industrial production has plummeted there
0:51.4	as other places.
0:52.8	So has the need for mechanized labor.
0:54.9	All over Japan, unemployed hobobots are living in impromptu tenth camps known as circuit
1:01.7	cities.
1:02.7	Some say the robots are enjoying the break.
1:06.4	They're not powering on till noon, using their daytime television sensors.
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