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Guest host: Susan Page
Top advisers from both the McCain and Obama campaigns react to the changing landscape on Wall Street as Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch sells itself to Bank of America.
Krishna Guha, US economics editor, "Financial Times"
Austan Goolsbee, senior economic adviser to the Obama Presidential Campaign and a professor of economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, senior domestic policy advisor for the McCain Presidential Campaign and former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Sudeep Reddy, economics reporter, Wall Street Journal
Greg Ip, U.S economics editor, The Economist
Guest host: Susan Page
Americans are now living about thirty years more than they did a hundred years ago. A journalist explores what these bonus years mean for people in long-term marriages.
Maggie Scarf, journalist and author of "Unfinished Business," "Intimate Partners," "Intimate Worlds," "Secrets, Lies, Betrayals" and "Body, Mind, Behavior.