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10:00The U.S. Residential Real Estate Market

Sales of new houses and existing homes rose in September, but median prices continue to falland as many as one third of existing home sales stem from foreclosures. Trends in the U.S. residential real estate market and the impact on the economy

Guests

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (Portfolio)

John Taylor, President and CEO, National Community Reinvestment Coalition

Steve O'Connor, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Mortgage Bankers Association

Christpher Foote, senior economist and policy advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

11:00Readers' Review: "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth

Diane invites listeners to join a discussion of what some reviewers called Philip Roth's most powerful political novel. It presents an alternate world in which Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in the 1940 presidential election.

Guests

Kate Lehrer, author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."

Ron Charles, fiction editor of the Washington Post Book World.

Prof. James Thurber, Director and Professor at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University

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