March 4 – The New Secretary of Energy; “How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour”; Kenya’s Ruling Class

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Part 1	We begin with an assessment of Ernest Moniz, President Obama’s choice to be the next Secretary of Energy. Tyson Slocum, the Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen joins us to discuss the choice of the physicist who is currently Director of MIT’s Energy Initiative, a research group that gets funding from BP, Chevron and Saudi Aramco.
Part 2	Then, with the publication today of the new list of billionaires from Forbes, we will speak with Les Leopold, the author of a new book “How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America’s Wealth”. Now that the Republicans have again gone to the mat to protect the tax loopholes that allow hedge fund managers to accrue astonishing wealth while paying less taxes than their secretaries, we discuss what it is that hedge funds do and why they are able to pull down astounding sums in minutes.
Part 3	Then finally, as counting begins in the Kenyan elections, we examine the revolving door between the political classes that rule Kenya, often inciting violence to further their power, but ultimately taking care of themselves and not the voters they promise to take care of. Georges Nzongola, professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina joins us to discuss the lack of ethnic violence so far, compared to the last election, which could change as election results are announced.