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Wednesday, President Obama announces administration plans to stem the nation's rising tide of foreclosures. Differing views on what may or may not work, and what's in the taxpayers' interest.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (Portfolio)
Steve O'Connor, senior vice president of government affairs, Mortgage Bankers Association
Julia Gordon, senior policy counsel, Center for Responsible Lending
Cena Valladolid, CEO of Consumer Credit Counseling Service, based in Las Vegas
An award-winning, Beijing-born writer presents her debut novel. It is based on a true story of the public execution in nineteen-seventy-nine of a young woman who served in the Red Guard before denouncing communism.
Yiyun Lee, author of the award-winning short story collection,"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers."
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