Government uses TARP money to bail out homeowners. Why is Type I diabetes skyrocketing? White House budget chief Peter Orszag talks with guest host David Lazarus. Then T-G-I-FilmWeek. We review How to Train Your Dragon, Hot Tub Time Machine, Chloe, Waking Sleeping Beauty and more.
Obama's loan modification program
To bolster its effort to reduce foreclosures, today the Obama administration announced new changes to its Home Affordable Modification Program. The proposed measures include allowing unemployed homeowners a three-month break in payments and giving lenders incentives to reduce the principal on delinquent loans. Will the new plan help to keep home foreclosures down?
Guest:
Richard Green, Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
Type 1 diabetes on the rise
Despite the discovery of insulin 90 years ago and an estimated $116 billion spent annually on treatment, diabetes remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States. In his new book, Diabetes Rising, medical journalist Dan Hurley investigates why approved medications and high-tech treatments are failing to slow this modern pandemic. Why is diabetes skyrocketing in this country? What is being researched towards preventing and curing this disease? And which approaches have so far been overlooked?
Guest:
Dan Hurley, medical journalist and author of Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It (Kaplan)
White House budget boss
As the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag oversees the Obama Administration’s budget policy, implements major policy initiatives for the Feds and reviews regulatory action. To wit, Orszag is one powerful dude. Guest host David Lazarus talks with Orszag about healthcare reform, federal spending, and celebrity-nerd balancing acts…errr…budgets.
Guest:
Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from January of 2007 to December of 2009
FilmWeek
Guest host David Lazarus and KPCC film critics Andy Klein of Brand X, Wade Major of boxoffice.com, and Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for amazon.com discuss the week’s new film releases, including How to Train Your Dragon, How Tub Time Machine, Chloe, and Waking Sleeping Beauty, Vincere, Eclipse, and The Harimaya Bridge. TGI-FilmWeek!
Guests:
Andy Klein, Brand X Wade Major, boxoffice.com Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for Amazon.com
How to Train Your Dragon
In this new 3-D animated action-adventure film, hitting theaters today, Hiccup is a Viking teenager who comes from a long line of dragon-slayers. But when the time comes to prove himself as a warrior, he decides instead to make friends with a dragon. Larry talks with directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois about dragons and DreamWorks.
Guests:
Chris Sanders, director, screenwriter, How to Train Your Dragon
Dean DeBlois, director and screenwriter, How to Train Your Dragon