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10:00McCain and Obama Tax Policy Proposals

Senator Obama is promising voters more progressive tax policies. Senator McCain vows to cut corporate tax rates. The plans of either candidate could add to the nation's nearly ten trillion dollar debt. How McCain and Obama differ on tax policies.

Guests

Alan Viard, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute and author of "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)"

Bob Davis, senior economics writer, Wall Street Journal

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, chief economic aide to Senator John McCain

Jason Furman, economic advisor to Senator Barack Obama

11:00Amanda Ripley: "The Unthinkable" (Crown)

Amanda Ripley, award-winning journalist for Time magazine, retraces the human response to some of the most devastating disasters of our age, from the explosion of the Mount Blanc munitions ship in 1917 to the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.

Guests

Amanda Ripley, covers homeland security and risk for "Time."

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