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Great Books for The Holidays

Arts, Culture & Media

This year’s recommendations come from writers and journalists including Granta editor John Freeman and writer Yiyun Li.

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on America’s Lost Decade

Economy of Green

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Re-examining the costs of the Iraq War as drawdown nears

Business, Economics and Jobs
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U.S. Deficit Projected to Reach $9 Trillion

Global Politics
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Economics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on the Obama stimulus plan

Global Politics

We turn to Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz for his thoughts on the pros and cons of President Obama’s economic stimulus plan.

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Shrinking the national debt one soldier at a time

Global Politics

President Obama is making a priority of slashing the national debt in the coming years and he says some of the greatest savings come from pulling troops out of Iraq. But just how much money can be saved by a troop withdrawal?

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Economy of green

Environment

Creating green jobs in the next decade will spur the American economy towards future growth. That’s according to Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Prize winner and economics professor at Columbia University, who talked with host Steve Curwood.

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