September 7 – Post-Qaddafi Rifts in North Africa; Joe Stiglitz on the Cost of 9/11; Downward Economic Mobility

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Part 1	First, we look into the regional consequences of the fall of Qaddafi as looted arms are proliferating south into Niger where Agadez has become a flourishing arms bazaar. We speak with Professor Hamoud Salhi, a specialist on Algeria, where the Algerian government is sheltering members of Qaddafi’s family, and where quite possibly Qaddafi himself is hiding out.
Part 2	Next, we continue with an accounting of the price we paid for 9/11 from Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. He has an article out now “The Price of 9/11” and we calculate the costs of the wars since 9/11 that have exceeded Dr Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes’ earlier conservative calculation of 3 to 5 trillion dollars
Part 3	Then, we look into the state of the American Dream and the shrinking Middle Class and speak with Erin Currier, the Project Manager of the Economic Mobility Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, who have released a new study that finds nearly one third of Americans who grew up middle class in the 1970s have fallen out of the middle class as adults.