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10:00Modifying Mortgages

Guest host: Frank Sesno

What new plans from Fannie Mac, Freddie Mae, and several large banks to modify terms on hundreds of thousands of mortgage loans could mean for homeowners and 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)

Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, co-director of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies, vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network

John Makin, economist, visiting scholar at American Enterprise Institute, and former consultant to the U.S. Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, and the International Monetary Fund,

Faith Schwartz, executive director,HOPE NOW.

11:00Jon Meacham "American Lion" (Random House)

Guest host: Frank Sesno

Jon Meacham discusses his new biography of President Andrew Jackson.

Guests

Jon Meacham, editor, Newsweek and co-moderator of "On Faith," an interactive conversation on religion at washingtonpost.com; Author of "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation."

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