February 2014

Free Form Friday, guided by the best callers in talk radio! Cliff’s Notes Recap Weekly Recap for 02-24-14 to 02-28-14 Monday – Fear of default is fading because of inflation. Tuesday – Consumer confidence fell in February. Wednesday – Data shows that the weather didn’t slow down sales. Thursday – Don’t focus on revenues but rather profits. Friday – The […]

Reps Janak Joshi (R-Col. District 16) & Joann Ginal (D-Col. District 52), representatives in the Colorado General Assembly, on the “right to try” bill they’re cosponsoring that would give dying patients access to experimental drugs..

Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company columnist & author of the book Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers–And How to Fight Back, on how the future of education will largely be “do it yourself.”.

Victors over Government. Christina Oatfield, Christina Oatfield, food policy director at the Sustainable Economies Law Center; and Mark Stambler, Los Angeles-based bread baker, on how Mark’s popular home-made bread operation was shut down by California’s food cops, and how’s it’s re-emerged following Christina’s efforts to legalize home-made food sales in California..

Bob Swarup, journalist & investor, on his new book, Money Mania: Booms, Panics, and Busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown.

Free Form Friday, guided by the best callers in talk radio! Cliff’s Notes Recap Weekly Recap for 02-17-14 to 02-21-14 Monday – Japan had a record trade deficit in the 4th quarter. Tuesday – The Fed must take credit for the bad price increases, not just the good. Wednesday – The government cooked the books on producer prices.

Burt Folsom, history professor at Hillsdale College & author of The Myth of the Robber Barons, on why inequality is healthy, why today’s conventional wisdom about the Gilded Age is all wrong, and how some modern-day Rockefellers could be just what today’s economy needs.