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Tuesday July 14, 2009
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Hosted by Mitch Teich

Guests: Les Leopold, Andrew Donohue, Agate Nesaule, Justin Perkins
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The Looting of America
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Author Les Leopold explains how the financial crisis occurred and who's to blame in his new book The Looting of America. Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity and What We Can Do About It, published by Chelsea Green. He is also the cofounder and director of two nonprofit organizations, the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute. He tells Stephanie Lecci that the roots of the crisis lie in the deregulation trend that occurred in the late 70s and 80s.


Voice of San Diego
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Andrew Donohue grew up in Cedarburg. He started his career in print journalism, but is now the editor of voiceofsandiego.org, a nonprofit news website in San Diego. He explains how the news site stays competitive on the internet.


In Love With Jerzy Kosinski
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Agate Nesaule’s novel is called In Love With Jerzy Kosinski; it’s published by the University of Wisconsin Press’s Terrace Books. Nesaule lives in Madison – we spoke with her in June.


Music Man
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Justin Perkins is a freelance recording and mixing engineer and producer. He lives in Bay View. He spoke with Bonnie North. In the interview, we hear: “We Never Know” by the now defunct Madison band the New Kentucky Quarter, and “Breakaway” by Bad (Love) Experience, an Italian alt rock band Perkins recorded in Italy last year.  We end with the tune, Heart Out Of Season by the Chicago band Riverdales. It's on their 4th album, Invasion USA, which was produced by Perkins and is coming out on CD and vinyl today on Asian Man Records. The CD release show in Madison at the Majestic Theatre on July 25th. Perkins also played some tambourine and did backing vocals on the record.


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