(2010/10/07) You thought you were angry at Wall Street before (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 October 2010
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Edition #415
You thought you were angry at Wall Street before
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Act 1: It’s ooover! – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Steal My Kisses – Burn to Shine
Act 2: Summers stepping down – Counterspin
Song 2: 2 Atoms In a Molecule – Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
Act 3: Social security lie – Young Turks
Song 3: Don’t Believe the Hype – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Act 4: The GOP spending addiction – Slate.com
Song 4: Not an Addict – Paradise In Me
Act 5: Nearly half oppose tax hike for rich – Counterspin
Song 5: The Only Exception – Brand New Eyes
Act 6: Unbearable Wall Streeters Part 1 – This American Life
Song 6: Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Mishima (Original Music Composed By Philip Glass)
Act 7: General Motors sales of disposable car – The Onion
Song 7: Kathy’s Song (Come Lie Next to Me) – Welcome to Earth
Act 8: Unbearable Wall Streeters Part 2 – This American Life
Song 8: Mad World – Donnie Darko (Music From the Original Motion Picture Score)
Act 9: Fed up with economics reporting – Counterspin
Song 9: La Réalité – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 10: Greed still isn’t good – Real Time with Bill Maher
Song 10: Just My Imagination – Bury the Hatchet
Act 10: Small businesses – Countdown
Song 10: Gone Going – Monkey Business
Act 11: Wall Street vs. Main Street – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Capitalism Hits the Fan with Economist Richard Wolff – Thom Hartmann
Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
Counterspin
The Young Turks
Slate
This American Life
The Onion
Bill Maher
Countdown
Thom Hartmann
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors who sign up at BestOfTheLeft.com and |
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| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from Wait, Wait, |
| 0:12.5 | Don't Tell Me, Counter-Spend, The Young Turks, Slate.com, This American Life, The Onion |
| 0:16.9 | Radio News, Real Time with Bill Maher and Countdown with Keith Oberman with a bonus clip |
| 0:21.0 | for our iTunes app users from the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:30.2 | Here's your first quote. |
| 0:31.2 | Break out the champagne, it's over. |
| 0:34.8 | That was Kevin Spack of newser.com. |
| 0:37.8 | He was celebrating maybe ironically some great economic news. |
| 0:41.2 | What is now officially over? |
| 0:43.2 | The recession? |
| 0:44.2 | Yes, exactly right. |
| 0:45.2 | The recession. |
| 0:46.2 | The recession ended last year or so says the National Bureau of Economic Research, which |
| 0:59.0 | apparently gets to decide these things, so stop your whining. |
| 1:04.5 | You can't say anymore, it's the economy's stupid, now it's you stupid. |
| 1:10.2 | The fact that an obscure group of experts gets to make these determinations that have |
| 1:14.6 | no bearing in reality, explains a lot. |
| 1:17.0 | These presumably are the same guys who also determine that the Dallas Cowboys are America's |
| 1:21.0 | team, Sandra Bullock is America's sweetheart, and beef is what's for dinner. |
| 1:31.2 | How did they keep this secret for so long? |
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