Kevin Cooper Stay Of Execution; The US Economy And The Role It Will Play In The Presidential Election; Why Are We So Unhappy, When We're Doing So Well
Kevin Cooper Stay Of Execution
Larry Mantle talks with Frank Stoltze, KPCC reporter covering the Kevin Cooper execution.
The US Economy And The Role It Will Play In The Presidential Election
Larry talks with the chief economist of Business Week Michael Mandel and Alice Rivlin, Director of the Greater Washington Research Program at the Brookings Institution and Senior Fellow in Economic Studies. She is the former Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administration (1994-1996), about the state of the US economy exploring everything from the budget and tax cuts to the jobless rate and the deficit. He'll also talk about the dollar's decline in relation to the euro and how the presidential election will be influenced by the relative health of the American economy. Larry will also talk about the Euro and the dollar with Pam Woodall, Economics Editor for the Economist magazine.
Why Are We So Unhappy, When We're Doing So Well
Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, and Senior Editor of The New Republic, joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss why it is that we in the West are doing so well in terms of prosperity and scientific advances, yet we are unhappy and dissatisfied with our lives. Would raising the minimum wage and instating universal health care make us happier? Or, is there some deeper psychological phenomenon at work?