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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
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
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.
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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