PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
1-3 p.m.
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1:06 – 1:19
OPEN
1:21 – 1:39
AIG and Goldman Sachs take the hot seat
Derivatives, derivatives, derivatives: that was the hot topic at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission last week. The bipartisan group tasked with figuring out how our economy melted down called on executives from AIG, Goldman Sachs, scholars, and regulators to help explain what the heck a derivative is and why they played a role in the collapse of our economy. If you have ever wondered what the notional value of over-the-counter derivatives were in 2008, the answer is $684 trillion. That’s trillion with a “t”. According to the chairman of the commission, that’s ten times the GDP of all nations. Patt examines all this risky business.
Guest:
Phil Angelides, chairman, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
HE CALLS US
1:41 – 1:58:30
The troubled environmental agenda of Barack Obama
Among the long list of promises and potential that Barack Obama carried with him into the White House, one of the greatest expectations of his supporters was that he would bring a radically different environmental agenda than his predecessor George W. Bush. Two years on and President Obama’s supporters have several reasons to be disappointed. While the continuous gushing of oil into the
Guest:
Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality & principal environmental policy adviser to President Obama
SHE CALLS US:
Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
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2:06 – 2:30
The new Fremont High
Last December, South L.A.’s Fremont High School became the first school ever in the Los Angeles Unified School District to undergo a controversial process known as “restructuring” or “reconstitution,” an aggressive plan under the No Child Left Behind Act that allows districts to reconstitute a chronically underperforming school, dismiss all teachers and rehire no more than 50% percent of its faculty before reopening. The method closely mirrors programs that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan implemented with varied success in
Guests:
George McKenna III, Superintendent for Local District 7, which includes John C. Fremont High
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OTHER GUESTS TBD
2:30 – 2:39
OPEN
2:41 – 2:58:30
Niall Ferguson “High Financier: the lives and times of Siegmund Warburg”
It might be a little controversial to say that
Guest:
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University and William Ziegler professor of business administration at Harvard Business School; his new book is “High Financier: the lives and times of Siegmund Warburg”
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