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Inside Job: Eat my Shorts

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

This American Life - By Ira Glass, Alex Blumberg, Jake Bernstein, Jesse Eisinger - Apr. 09 (Special Report) - For seven months a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica looked into a story for us, the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us. ... A hedge fund named Magnetar comes up with an elaborate plan to make money. It sponsors the creation of complicated and ultimately toxic financial securities... while at the same time betting against the very securities it helped create.

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Scenes From a Recession

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

This American Life - By Ira Glass - Mar. 07 (News Report) - The economy works in mysterious ways. This week, we highlight the unusual circumstances our economic drought has left us in, and the newly hatched plans being made to survive it: including a partially-renovated condo building in Chicago, whose developers have abandoned it -- though they didn’t bother to tell the 19 unit owners who still live there, paying their mortgages. And a story which tracks the FDIC during its most covert operation: taking over an unsuspecting bank.

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More is Less

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

This American Life - By Ira Glass - Oct. 11 (Investigative Report) - An hour explaining the American health care system, specifically, why it is that costs keep rising. One story looks at the doctors, one at the patients and one at the insurance industry.

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The Giant Pool of Money

Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

This American Life - By Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, Ira Glass - May. 09 (Special Report) - What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s?

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