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Tuesday September 30, 2008
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Guest host: Frank Sesno
The House of Representatives rejected the administration's $700 billion financial bail out package sending the stock market tumbling. A look at why the measure failed and what proponents of the plan are hoping to do next.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (Portfolio)
Martin Kady, reporter, Politico
Tom Deutsch, Deputy Executive Director, American Securitization Forum
Kathleen Day, Center for Responsible Lending
Frank Partnoy, law professor, University of San Diego author of "Infectious Greed"
Guest host: Frank Sesno
A journalist explores the link between the pollution in her Great Lakes town and the rare forms of cancer in her family.
Nancy Nichols, journalist, editor, and broadcaster
Dr. Howard Frumkin, director of CDC's National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
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