735P: Professional Roundtable,  Mona Charen, NRO, Tunku Varadarajan, Hoover Institution, James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, Dodd draws fire for tortured tale  House approves 90 percent AIG tax

750P:  Continued  Obama apologizes for remark  Palin slams 'Special Olympics' remark

805P:  Detroit Roundtable, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan, John Stoll, Wall Street Journal, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re U.S. Throws Aid to Auto Suppliers

820P:  Continued Detroit Roundtable:  The federal government will announce as soon as Monday a three-pronged plan to rid the financial system of toxic assets, betting that investors will be attracted to the combination of discount prices and government assistance. The framework, designed to expand existing programs and create new mechanisms, relies heavily on participation from private-sector investors.  

835: Financial Roundtable, Jodi Schneider, CQ,   Simon Constable, Dow Jones,  Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance,  John McCain has out-mavericked himself again, telling the Financial Times that critics (including his colleague Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.) should give Geithner some time to do his job.  Off With the (AIG) Bankers' Heads - Simon Johnson & James Kwak, NYT

850P: Continued   Let's Put Down The Pitchforks - Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

905P:  Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, Golden Rice is a two decade old breakthrough GM product that offers Vitamin A to the deprived and starving of the Earth, yet it is restricted from the continents that need it most by political savvy cultists.  Why?

920P:  John Taylor, Hoover Institution, "Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged and Worsened the Financial Crisis."

935P:  Jeff Jarvis, author, "What Would Google Do?"  "Jarvis, proprietor of the influential media blog BuzzMachine, gleans maxims from Google's successful strategies that occasionally sound like doublespeak (Free is a business model! Abundance is the new scarcity! Correcting yourself enhances credibility!). But they boil down to practical suggestions." (Time magazine )

955P: Exeunt re a walk in Palo Alto and San Francisco after the fall of the houses of cards.  Got Gold? You're Right on the Money - Bill Fleckenstein, MSN Money  David Enrich, Wall Street Journal, re Wall Street Pursues Pay Loopholes

_______________________________

KFI-AM 640 Los Angeles, 7-10P Pacific Time.

705P Pacific Time:  John Gapper, Financial Times, re AIG Reinvents The Trader's Option, re how the AIG Bonus Villains are necessary afterall, because only they know how to unwind the brain-twisting trades that have so far cost the US $180 billion.  Greenberg attacks US over AIG  Now, the ever-ingenious AIG traders have come up with a derivative of the trader's option. Call it the trader's option squared.

720P: John Hughes, Bloomberg,  re GM and Chrysler and the Obama administration.  

735P:  Professional Roundtable with Diana West, DianaWest.com, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), Jim McTague, Barrons  Palin slams 'Special Olympics' remark  Really, Congress, Leave the Bonuses Alone - Donald Luskin, SmartMoney

750P: Continued  re Systemic Risk Regulator, re  House approves 90 percent AIG tax

805P: Professional roundtable with Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, Bill Whalen, Hoover, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com,   AIG and 'Political Risk' - Ian Bremmer & Sean West, Wall Street Journal  My Vote: Jamie Dimon for Treasury Secretary - David Reilly, Bloomberg

820P:  Continued with  Ben Bernanke's $1.2 Trillion Bet - Editorial , Investor's Business Daily  From the LA Times: California unemployment hits 10.5% in February

835P:  Steve Cohen, NYU, re Russia rearms, re  Kremlin Signals a Harder Line 

850P:  Continued  No Lifeline Promise for Russian Tycoons  A top Kremlin official warned that Russia's debt-burdened tycoons might have to part with their assets amid the deepening global crisis.

905P:  Tom Jones, Ellen Stofan, authors, "Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System."

920P:  Parris Chang, frmr Taiwan National Security Agency  Taiwan Defense Plan Risks China Ties  

935P: Julia Angwin, "Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America," re the 2005 sale of a social media start-up website to Rupert Murdoch of News Corps:.

955P: Joseph Sternberg, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the protectionist legislation, by a Connecticut congresswoman who is pals with Rahm Emanuel, against Chinese food products that could trigger retaliation.