January 13 – Will Jack Lew Work For Main Street or Wall Street?; Karzai’s Duplicitous Double Dealing; Amy Wilentz on Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake

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Part 1	We begin with an overview of the economic challenges ahead facing the new Secretary of the Treasury and the extent to which he understands them. Robert Johnson, the Executive Director of the Institute For New Economic Thinking joins us to discuss whether Jack Lew recognizes the systemic risk posed by the big banks and whether they are sufficiently regulated to prevent another meltdown which the Treasury will not have the funds to bail out next time.
Part 2	Then, with President Obama having just met in the Oval Office with Afghanistan’s kleptocrat-in-chief Hamid Karzai, we are joined by Robert Pelton Young, an author, filmmaker, journalist and explorer who has just spent five weeks on missions in the mountains of Afghanistan with U.S. Special Forces hunting the Taliban. We discuss what is happening on the ground as Karzai asks for more American money for his family and cronies.
Part 3	Then finally, with yesterday's observation of the third anniversary of the Earthquake in Haiti which took 300,000 lives and left over a million homeless, we are joined in-studio by Amy Wilentz, the author of the new book, Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti. She also has an article in Sunday’s LA Times, “For journalists today, the whole world is watching”.