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One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama tries to build momentum for a rewrite of U.S. financial regulations: Analysis of the fundamental changes supported by the administration, the role of the Federal Reserve and new protections for consumers.
Alan S. Blinder, is 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.
Austan Goolsbee, member, Council of Economic Advisers staff director and chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Michael Greenberger, professor, University of Maryland Law School, director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, and former senior regulator, Commodities Futures Trading Commission
Steve Bartlett, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Financial Services Roundtable
Physician and best-selling author Andrew Weil on why health-care reform needs to change the entire medical system.
Dr. Andrew Weil, director of the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine and author of ten previous books, including "Spontaneous Healing," "Eight Weeks to Optimum Health," and "The Healthy Kitchen" with Rosie Daley.
Join Diane Rehm as she interviews Carl Kasell at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium.