Journalist Michael Lewis says the stock market is rigged – a claim that’s stirring up all kinds of controversy. In this FRESH and EXTENDED interview, Lewis talks with Steve Paulson about high frequency trading, the morality of Wall Street and how Lewis invests his own money.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Laurell Hamilton has written a series of novels featuring a character called Anita Blake. Anita is a vampire executioner whose day job is raising the dead. Hamilton talks about Anita’s world
You probably heard our new theme tune in the shows this weekend. Want the back story on how the new music came about? Here's a conversation with Steve Mullen, who composed it.
Martin Gilbert is Winston's Churchill's biographer, and explains what made Churchill such a great leader during WWII.
Mimi Sheraton is the author of “The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World.” She explains what she found when she traveled to Bialystock.
Is there a better way to think about money? Bernard Lietaer thinks so. One of the designers of the Euro, he’s now talking up the virtues of alternative currencies. In this EXTENDED interview, Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne tell us why complementary currencies are now flourishing around the world – and how they could help us dodge the next recession.
Judith Claire MItchell's first novel “The Last Day of the War” is set just after World War I, when Europe's peace brokers decided to ignore the Armenian massacres. She talks about the painful legacy of that decision, 100 years later.
Meir Shalev tells Jim Fleming that he thinks the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem reached at the conclusion of that war was a just one and that the parties should return to the 1948 agreement.
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