March 28 – JOBS Act Opens Business for Hucksters and Fraudsters; A Silver Lining in Gutting Obamacare; U.N. Speaks Out of Both Sides of the Mouth on Syria

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the so-called JOBS Act now heading to the White House for the President’s signature. Jeff Mahoney, the General Council of the investor watch dog group the Council of Institutional Investors, joins us to assess the damage that this de-regulation of Wall Street in the name of job creation will do to unsophisticated mom and pop investors who will soon be prey to boiler room hucksters now free to advertize in almost any medium.

Part 2

Then a former health insurance insider Wendell Potter, joins us to analyze why the Affordable Care Act is vulnerable to having the individual mandate overturned by the Supreme Court. A former chief corporate spokesman for CIGNA and the head of corporate communications at Humana, Wendell Potter is the author of “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”.

Part 3

Then finally we assess the chances of Kofi Annan’s so-called peace plan for Syria going anywhere, given that as a precondition, the opposition will be asked to surrender to a regime that is killing its own people and trust that the Assads have any interest in reform. A former Syrian diplomat and Professor of Middle East Studies at the National Defense University Murhaf Jouejati joins us the analyze the Annan plan and discuss the Arab Summit now underway in Baghdad where Syria is on the agenda but not present, having been expelled from the Arab League.