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Sunday 2 November, 2008 NY, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on October 31, 2008 2:44 PM | No Comments
705P ET:  Election Special.  Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan, Chair House Republican Policy Committee, re the Paulson folly Tarp II bailout and the complete loss of principles in the House GOP leadership, re the rudderless House and John Boehner the blind captain, re the fate of the 111 House GOP who voted "no" on the bailout twice.
720P: Brody Mullins, Wall Street Journal, re 110th lame duck and 111th prospective preparing committee assignments, re a special panel to rewrite financial regulations, re the musical chairs of the senior Democrats, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Jack Reed, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry.  And HRC.
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735P: Professionals Mona Charen, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, re the closing arguments of the candidates, re the fact that at least 25% of the votes are already in, re the awakening of Sarah Palin and the hiding of Joe Biden, re the last hurrah of the maverick.
750P: Continued re ACORN, re the Obama manipulation of the ACORN ties to Obama, re the questions to come about the 5046 South Greenwood Avenue Obama mansion and the 5050 South Greenwood Avenue lot (right) bought by Tony Rezko.
805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re the election and the banks, re the Obama tax cuts, re the Fed cuts and the road ahead, re 0% interest by February?
820P:  Financial roundtable, with Jim McTague, Barron's, Aaron Task, Yahoo, and Simon Constable, Dow Jones, re the Fed move to cut rates, re future Fed actions, re the bankers prepare to pay themselves bonuses with taxpayer cash. 
835P: Continued re Tarp II and enforcement of mandate to loan, re the Obama and McCain tax cuts, re the recession and the Congress.
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850P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the U.S. election and Israel, re the Israeli election, re the missing in action Ahmahdinejad in Tehran, re the beggaring of the oil states, re the US October 26 raid on Syria and the Damascus protest.
905P:  Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, re Jean Bertrand Aristide and the untold story fo the Haitian telecom corruption with Democratic Party bosses in the Clinton years, re Hugo Chavez struggles without the oil spike.
920P: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re the election and the European Union, re the EU and the financial crisis, re the Obama expectations and Nicholas Sarkozy and Iran.
935P: Shane Hamilton, author, "Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy," re the parallel and interlocked rise of the independent truckers since the 1930s and the political phenomenon of anti-union, anti-regulation, decentralized agribusiness that promoted the conservative ideas of smaller government and small business far ahead of the Republican party brew after Goldwater. 
955P: Exeunt with Bob Zimmerman re Obama and NASA.
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705P PT: Professionals Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, re the Congressional elections and the expectations of a Democratic agenda, re Mrs. Pelosi elevated to the authority of Tip O'Neill and Sam Rayburn.
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720P: Alex Fragos, Wall Street Journal, re Donald Trump's Trump International & Hotel Chicago glass tower out of customers, out of time, out of bankers, and the retail is empty, re the Chicago Tower of Babel.
735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, Diana West, NRO, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the closing hours of the Obama triumph and the McCain torrent, re the MIA George W. Bush and the unseen and unheard Dick Cheney, re the Europeans choose an American president.
750P: Continued re the widely admitted lack of information as to what an Obama presidency will resemble, and what skills Mr. Obama will bring to the transition and the Oval office.
805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the expectations of a Democratic congress, re the return of economic liberalism and the new diplomacy, re the mystery of an Obama management style, re the risk of the election and the next POTUS.
820P: Continued re the retreat and remaking of the Republican Party in a severely reduced state, re who lost the Republicans?
835P: Yosef Bodansky, author "Chechen Jihad," re the report of a North Korean aircraft intercepted and forced down in India, re the Syrian reaction to the US cross border strike Sunday October 26.  U.S. Request Grounded N. Korean Plane. 
850P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the Japanese markets and the financial crisis, re the collapse of the Hang Seng, the slowdown of the China mainland.
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905P: Ann Marlowe, at Khost, Afghanistan, re the facts on Afghan civilian casualties from US air attacks (right, U.S. 1st Lt. Braden Amigo of the Third Platoon Delta company 1-26 infantry listens to an Afghan villager during a patrol in Narang district near Pakistani border in Kunar province eastern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct 31, 2008), re the deterioration of the security, re the stress on the NATO forces, re the Americans propose talks with the Taliban.
920P:  Ann Marlowe joined by Daoud Sultanzoy, member of Afghanistan government, at Kabul, re the Americas propose talks with the Taliban, re the Pakistan government harbors the Taliban.
935P: Robert Sullivan, editor, author, "The American Journey of Barack Obama," dominated by photographs and featuring an essays by Gay Talese on Ann Dunham, Richard Norton Smith, Andrei Cordescu.  Photos include Ted Kennedy, Ken Salazar, HRC, Jeremiah Wright, but no photos of Bill Clinton, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Dick Daley, Rod Blagojevich, the Springfield Senate years, the Woods Fund, the 2000 congressional race against Bobby Rush.
955P: Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, the death of Detroit, GM threatens martyrdom, the VW short squeeze, the luxury car market hesitates

Sunday 26 October, 2008 NY, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on October 24, 2008 11:03 AM
705P ET: Jed Babbin, Human Events, re John McCain's promises and the party's expectations of a McCain presidency with campaign finance reform, offshore-drilling, ANWR, immigration reform, taxes, the Paulson bailout, and especially the courts.  Will John McCain fight the Democratic Senate on court appointments?  Re is there hope in the bleakness?
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720P: Eric Umansky, ProPublica, re the Paulson plan, version 3, how will the Treasury pick which banks stay in the lifeboat and which banks are asked to exit the lifeboat, and what are the rules?  Perhaps rules is too strong.
735P: Roundtable with Diana West, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, re the closing hours of the Black Swan campaign, re Obama off the trail and McCain looking for the trail, re the mysteries of Biden Speak, re the absence of information about Obama's, Biden's and McCain's wardrobe. 
750P:  Continued re Young Barack Obama the sentimental Marxist opportunist, but then, Ivan Ilyich Ulyanov was a celebrated sentimental Marxist opportunist and look how that turned out?
805P:  Financial roundtable with Jim McTague, Barron's, and Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re Alan Greenspan says "I'm sorry" and asks for a do-over for the last forty years.  Congress applauds.  Re the bear market settles in for a long nap.  Re "The Traders Who Touch Their Faces" Blog, Friday 24 October editor (right).
820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Tehran picks Obama, re Hamas picks Obama, re Syria strangely quiet, re the mysteries of Biden Speak over the decades.
835P:  Paul Hollrah, New Media Journal, re the unusually large amounts of money flowing into the Obama campaign in peculia dollar amounts such as $198.77 or $143.04, re the piggy bank explanation, re the foreign currency laundering explanation, re the 2.5 million donors to the Obama campaign and the two million of them still unnnamed.
850P: Kevin O'Rourke, TestTube.tv, re the collapse of TV budgets and Hollywood budgets, re where does a movie company go to get a bailout, the the new sit com pitch, "I Was A Teenaged Banker (and now I'm an outlaw)"
905P:  Candice Knezevic, EnoughProject.org, re the genocide in the Eastern Congo the deade long civil war, the depredations and the expectations, re the credit crisis reached the Congo in 1912 and never left, re African expectations of the Obama administration
920P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re Hamas prepares the victory parade for the Obama/Biden ticket, re what does Hamas want and how long will it take?  Re the odd remark by Ahmed Yousef that Hamas is in communication with the Bush administration.
935P: Andrew Meier, "The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Service," re the mystery and the solution of Isaiah Oggins, born 1898 in Connecicut, who pursued his leftist passion to joining Stalin's NKVD in 1928 and working to spy on the Germans, the Japanese and himself until he and his wife were snared by Stalin's Gulag.
955P: Exeunt Bob Zimmerman re the India moonshot and the Asian moon race.

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705P PT: Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal, re the crashed California housing market and signs of repair and reawakening that resemble animating a corpse, re California with 12% of the nation's housing but with 34% of the loans in the mortgage backed security sausage that is the rot inside the machine, re Merced County (right, the original county courthouse, 1875, now a museum) re brown laws, foreclosed renters, banks without pity, re 2006 in Los Banos in Merced county showed subprime loans at 45%.  If you own a house in California, you want to know about Merced County.
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720P: Devin Nunes, congressman 21st California (R), Tulare County in San Joaquin Valley, the farm belt, re the credit crisis in the Valley, re the campaign trail after his double "No" votes on the Paulson bailout plan Tarp I and Tarp II, re the remains of the Republican House and he GOP minority leadership that failed on September 29 and October 3, voting with the Maximum Bankers.
735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the McCain campaign wanders the map looking for a poll that doesn't frown; re the rumors of McCain camp abandoning ship before it sinks; re the mystery of the Obama team.
750P: Continued re the strange case of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank: the good cop/bad cop formal?
805P: Professionals Monica Crowley, The McLoughlin group, Bill Whalen, Hoover, John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the strange case of the absent candidate doing better in the polls than the present candidate, re the unusual world of Joe Biden, re the delcine and fall of the GOP.
820P: Continued re who will be blamed, re the America people surge for a savior who is also a cipher.
835P: Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the deepening and darkening world wide recession, re the wish-dream of de-coupling, re the sell-off in European bourses accelerates.
850P:  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Univere in a Mirror," re the India moonshot, the Asian moon race, the Soyuz returns to Earth, re the Hubble backup restart.
905P: Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, at Baghdad, re the plunging price of oil and the Iraqi budget, re the world wide recession hits Iraq, re the security in Baghdad and the price of oil, re OPEC cuts and Iraq, Iraqi Spokesman Rebuffs U.S. Admiral Remarks on Security Pact.
920P:  Patrick Barta, Wall Street Journal, at Jakarta, re the South Sea seaweed bubble and the collapse of commodities, Indonesia Soaked as Seaweed Bubble Bursts re the global recession hits Asia and takes down the most vulnerable.
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935P: Andy Jampoler, author, "The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt's Flight form the Gallows," re the man who knew Booth and the conspirators was in Elmire, New York on the day Booth shot Lincoln, and he ran.
955P: Exeunt re banking crisis of 1933 and FDR's (right, March 12, 1933) -- Let us unite in banishing fear," -- first fireside chat on banking.


Sunday 19 October NYC, DC, SF, LA

By John Batchelor on October 17, 2008 2:00 PM | 6 Comments
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705P ET:  Amity Schlaes, author, "The Forgotten Man," re the mistakes FDR made in 1933 that lengthened the recession into the Great Depression, re It Can't Happen Here.
720P:  Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, author, re the Crash of 2008, the hedge funds commit suicide in public, Mr. Market prepares for Mr. Obama, re who is smarter, Morgan Stanley's John Mack or Goldman's Hank Paulson?
735P: Roundtable with Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re the Housing Bubble wwas the Republican Bubble, re the projections for the GOP in the House and Senate.
750P: Continued re the banks hoard and who is surprised?
805P:  Larry Kudlow, CNBC, "Kudlow and Company," re the bear market of 08-09, re the Hank Paulson reload on TARP and the banks prepare to survive, re is John McCain a Republican? 
820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the rise of Hugo Chavez and the long reach of Tehran.
835P:  John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re ACORN and the long standing corruption of voter registration by vandals, re the rest of the facts about Mr. Obama and ACORN.  Court Ruling Stokes Voter-Fraud Fight.
850P: David Henderson, Hoover, re the Nobel Price in Economics for Paul Krugman, New York Times, and Oslo votes for Obama early.
905P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re conversation with Dr. Ahmed Yusef, chief political advisor to the Hamas government in Gaza, re the report of StateSec Rice writing a complinentary letter to Hamas in Damascus, re the Hamas expectation of an Obama/Biden Administration.
920P: Evelyn Pringle, OpEd News, re the revelations in the Washington Times re a Mutual Bank of Chicago former clerk accusing his bank of fraud and collusion with regard the Tony Rezko handling of Barack Obama's 2005 mansion purchase, re May 2005 and the pressures on Tony Rezko to deliver on a GE lawsuit, on a bribe to Iraq, and on the purchase of the lot and house for Barack Obama, re the ongoing risk to Obama, re the complete picture of how Rezko schemed for the house and the money, see a summary in the Alexandria Library of Obamana: "The Real Barack Obama."
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935P: Jacob Weisberg, author, "The Bush Tragedy," re the unusual facts of the Bush family of the 20th century that produced the incurious, put-upon, inert President George W. Bush (right, re the market crisis).
955P: Exeunt re the original proto rubble pile that is Phobos of Mars (right), building blocks of Earth, re Lou ann Hammond and the Michelin tire of the future.


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705P PT: Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal, re congressional hearings on the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac risks as early as 1996, when no one listened or reacted to the risk management.
720P: Shamona Coutts, ProPublica, re the next wave of foreclosures as teaser mortgages balloon, also re AIG continuing to lobby the government that owns it.
735P: Roundtable with Diana West, Larry Johnson and Jim McTague re the third debate and the inability of John McCain to follow his own questions, re the skills of Barack Obama, re Joe the Plumber joins the campaign.
750P: Continued re the mysteries of the candidate's tax planning.
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805P: Roundtable with Monica Crowley, Bill Whalen, and John Avlon, re class warfare works, re the last debate and the competences of demagoguery,
820P:  Continued re the silence or hoarseness of the Bush Administration.
835P: Charles Forelle, Wall Street Journal, re the continued saga of Iceland, re how Iceland saw the end coming and sought a way out, re the failure of all defenses and the beggary of an island nation.  Iceland Missed Signs of Liquidity Freeze.   Icelandair Tries to Restore Health.
850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the trouble with Hubble improves, the restart of the "486"computer onboard, re coffee cups in space, re the space tourist who can buy the Soyuz.
905P: James Bamford, author, "The Shadow Factory," re the NSA that missed the 9/11 killers and has rebuilt itself into a global signals intelligence system, Big Brother's Big Uncle.
920P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the global credit criss and the Asia markets, re the coming recession in Asia.
935P: Peter Heller, author, "The Whale Killers," re the radical ecologists chasing the piratical Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica, December 2005 to January 2006, re playing chick in a gale, re the agony of the whales.
955P: Exeunt re Science Magazine on the uncharted landscape of race and presidential polling 2008.


The Crash of '08, October 12, 2008

By John Batchelor on October 11, 2008 5:33 PM | No Comments

John Batchelor Show Special The Crash of '08, October 12, 2008 

 

WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

 

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705P ET: Devin Nunes, 21st California (R), representing San Joaquin Valley, the farm belt of America, re the Paulson bailout package votes of September 29 and October 4, re the global market plunge continue regardless of the Paulson plan.

 

720P:  Claudia Rosett, Foundation Defense Democracies, re the Obama Policy, for rogues and failed states, vs. the McCain Policy, from the Nashville debate, the the market collapse and the rogue North Korea.

 

735P: Roundtable with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re the campaign week during the market plunge and the global crisis.

750P:  Continued re the "relationship" between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers and John McCain.

 

805P:  Dan Henninger, Wall Street Journal, re the collapse of norms on Wall Street and across all of the four estates. A Call for Norms.

 

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the Russia cooperation with the illicit Tehran nuclear fuel program, re the ambiguous remarks by the presidential candidates re Iran's nuclear weapons program, re the oil bubble collapse and the rogue Iran.

 

835P: Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times, re Tony Rezko, Barack Obama's campaign financier for the '04 Senate race, cooperating with prosecutors in the ongoing investigation of Illinois government corruption.

 

850P: Conor Dougherty, Wall Street Journal, re the spiral of the California economy as harbinger for the nation, the continent. California May Point Way for U.S.

 

905P:  Judy Shelton, Wall Street Journal, author, re the crisis in money, re the gold standard vs. the central bank board, re the prospect of a new Bretton Woods monetary conference called for by Nicolas Sarkozy.

 

920P: James Polti, Financial Times, re the 35 year-old Goldman protégé at Treasury now in charge of spending $700 billion for Hank Paulson, Kashkari. Rescue Was Sold Softly to the Street

 

935P:  Bill White, author, "Intrepid," re the Intrepid Air and Space Museum and the famous boat that houses it, re the 1941 birth, the 2001 draft into the War on Terror.

 

955P:  Jim McTague, Barron's re the de facto nationalization of the banks.




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705P PT:  Amity Schlaes, author, "The Forgotten Man," re the great depression and the FDR errors and oversteps that deepened the crisis, re the Crash of '29 vs the Crash of '08.

 

720P:  Kristin Jones, ProPublica, re the troika of Paulson, Cox and Bernanke praise credit derivatives once upon a time. Top Regulators Once Opposed Regulation of Derivatives

 

735P: Professionals Larry Johnson, Diana West, Craig Unger, re the campaign week, re the dullness of the Nashville debate, re McCain erratic and Obama cool, the market rules, and the end of the banker.

750P:  Continue re the "relationship" of Ayers and Obama and McCain and Palin.  Re the Chicago report that Tony Rezko cooperating about Alexi Giannoulias, the puppy treasurer of Illinois and Barack Obama's hand-picked candidate for Rod Blagojevich.

 

805P:  Professionals Bill Whalen, Hoover, and Jim McTague, Barron's, re the California credit crisis, re the run on small and medium regional banks, re the imminent collapse of Detroit and Dover (credit cards), re the campaigns ignore reality to talk about jobs.

820P: Continued re the market crisis and the credibility of Bush, Congress, the Federal Reserve, the G7, and globalization.

 

835P: Charles Forelle, Wall Street Journal, re the collapse and bankruptcy of the krona and Iceland with it, re the poster for banking excess, re the krona vs. the cod.

 

850P: Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal, at Shanghai, re the Chinese military breaks off cooperation with the U.S. military over the Taiwan arms deal.  Re the market collapse and Chinese stability. Pentagon Feels Chill Set In With China.

 

905P:  Jimmy Rogers, author, "Bull in China," from Singapore, re the global credit panic and the crash of '08.  In March, Jimmy Rogers told this audience to sell every rally and fire Ben Bernanke and to stop bailing out the guys with Maseratis.

 

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, Universe in a Mirror, re the trouble with Hubble, re the NASA cutbacks on Mars and in low Earth orbit, re the US cuts a deal with Russia Soyuz, re the space program and the U.S. budget.

 

935P: James O'Donnell, author, "The Ruin of the Roman Empire," re the limits of the Romanization of continental Europe, the revanchism of the Byzantines until the dead of the Sauron-like Justinian (563 A.D.) and the rise of the Franks and the Britons as the center of global civilization for fifteen hundred years.

 

955P:  Lou Ann Hammond, re the collapse and bankruptcy of insolvent Detroit, GM first.

 

 

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday October 5, 2008

By John Batchelor on October 5, 2008 5:40 PM | No Comments
WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday October 5, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on October 03, 2008 at 9:51 PM

WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET:  Thaddeus McCotter, Member of Congress, 11th Michigan (R), re the Paulson bailout fight, re the rejection in the House on Monday, 205-228, re the jam job by the Senate, re the passage in the House after the pork and perks, 263-171.  Re the GOP holds, 91-108. 

720P:  James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, re the Bill Clinton defense of the Phil Gramm deregulation bill of 1999 that lowered the alls between banks, investment banks, brokerages and hedgies.

735P:  Roundtable with Mona Charen, NRO, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re the bailout bill and the struggle with Congress, re the Paulson-Pelosi-Hoyer trio, re the revolt of the GOP.

750P:  Continued re the Palin and Biden debate.

805P:  Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re the crisis in the banks and the TARP, re the Paulson plan going forward, re the calls for recapitalizing the banks.  "There's more here than just the bailout package."

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Olmert makes more promises, re the North Koreans restart their reactor program and what that means for Syria.

835P:  Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy, re "American Carol."

850P:  Jack Shaw, ex-DoD, re Nadmi Auchi part 2, the corruption of the CPA leads to corruption of the Maliki government, re Iraq as a kleptocracy.

905P:John Gapper, Financial Times, re "The Banker's Fall," and the complete collapse of the banking sector.

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the gathering storm in Lebanon as Syria looms.

935P: Bill White, author "Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship."

955P:  Exeunt Bob Zimmerman, re the Hubble trouble and the delayed ISS mission to Hubble.

 

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KFI Sunday Schedule October 5, 2008

By John Batchelor on October 5, 2008 5:35 PM | No Comments
KFI Sunday Schedule October 5, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on October 03, 2008 at 6:57 PM

KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT: Nomi Prins, author, "Other People's Money," re the credit crisis, the collapse of the banking sectr, the emergency bailout, the road ahead.

720P: Aaron Task, Yahoo Business, re the market gyrations, the bear market, the recession in place, the limits of the Fed, the panic, hysteria, gloom on Wall Street and in the global markets.

735P: Roundtable with Margaret Hoover,FNC, Jim McTague, Barron's, and Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the credit crisis and the election.  The showdown in the House.  The futile maneuvers of John McCain.  The anti-climactic Palin/Biden debate.

750P:Continued:  McCain camp abandons Michigan: is this the end of the McCain campaign?  Palin pushes back re Michigan.

805P: Roundtable with Monica Crowley, Monica Crowley Show, Bill Whalen, Hoover, and John Avlon, Real Clear Politics, re the market swoon and the crisis management at the White House and Treasury, re the bullying nature of Hank Paulson, the aimless appeals of George Bush, the feckless leadership in the House of Representatives.

820P:  Continued re the pointless debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.

835P: Lisa Belkin, New York Times, re "Palin Talk," the mixed and counter intuitive response by women to the nominations of a working mother with and infant in arms to the vice-presidency.

850P:  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror, re the Hubble trouble, the delay of the rescue mission, re snow on Mars, the Mercury Messenger's flyby, and more solar mystery.  Also, Steve Fosset is found, KIA.

905P:  Judy Shelton, Wall Street Journal, "Loose Money and the Roots of the Crisis," re the abused money supply that let the banks build their houses on sand.

920P: Joe Sternberg, Asia Wall Street Journal, from Hong Kong, re the Asia market turmoil, the recession sweeps over China, re the 

935P:  Bill Murphy, Jr, author "In a Time of War," re the West Point Class 2002 and five years of warfare in theaters, re families and dreams.  Mesmerizing.  America's backbone.  See Youtube video below.

955P:  Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com, re the Detroit bailout by Congress, re is $25 billion the first round?

 

In a Time of War by Bill Murphy Jr., is the new book chronicling the amazing, true story of the West Point class of 2002, the first cadets in a generation to graduate from the United States Military Academy during wartime.  First Chapter.