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Guest host: Frank Sesno
A look at what Senate changes to the bailout bill might accomplish substantively or politically as the legislation heads back to the House; and different views on how critical it is to get this or any bill passed.
Greg Hitt, reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Dan Mitchell, senior fellow at the Cato Institute
John Cochrane, Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance, at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business
Peter Wallison, Arthur F. Burns fellow in financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute; served as general counsel of the U.S. Treasury department in the Reagan Administration
Guest host: Frank Sesno
A novelist explains how she turned her experience working with the star of Free Willy – a killer whale named Keiko – into a story about an aging caretaker and his beloved elephant. A look at fair and humane treatment for captive animals.
Diane Hammond, author of two previous novels, "Going to Bend' and "Homesick Creek."
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