February 23 – Wall Street Siphons Your Gas Money; “Beautiful Souls”; The Student Loan Debt Bomb

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Part 1	We begin with an analysis of what is really driving up the price of gas at a time when OPEC is producing more oil than global demand, and gasoline demand in the U.S. is the lowest its been for decades, so much so that oil companies are exporting record amounts of refined products. The former head of the Division of Markets and Trading at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Michael Greenberger, joins us to look into how much Wall Street speculators are driving up the price at the pump.
Part 2	Then author and journalist Eyal Press joins us. He is the author of a new book “Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscious in Dark Times”. We examine the psychology of resistance and the courage of those who choose principal over loyalty, as well as the fate of whistleblowers who we all admire, but more often than not, do not emulate.
Part 3	Then finally, Deanne Loonin, an attorney and Director of the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project joins us. We discuss the student loan debt bomb waiting to explode, with student loan debt in the United States now totaling more than a trillion dollars, more than all of the outstanding credit card debt in the country.