Obama Economy; SAG Strike?; Obama's Cabinet Choices; How One Jewish Immigrant Created California
Obama Economy
In a press conference this morning, President-elect Obama announced his latest economic cabinet appointments. Larry talks with Neil Irwin, Washington Post national economy correspondent, Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and James Wilcox, Professor of Financial Institutions at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, about Obama's picks and his proposals for addressing the country's economic crisis.
SAG Strike?
Talks between the Screen Actors Guild and movie studios broke down Saturday over the issue of new media, and SAG is planning to ask its 12,000 members to authorize a strike. Larry gets the latest from Brian Watt, KPCC Reporter covering the negotiations.
Obama's Cabinet Choices
Larry talks with KPCC listeners about President-elect Obama's latest cabinet appointments.
How One Jewish Immigrant Created California
In just 30 years, at the turn of the 20th century, California financier Isaias Hellman went from a penniless teenager to the richest man in the West. He was a German-born Jew and one of only a few hundred Europeans in Los Angeles when he acquired Wells Fargo bank. In her new book "Towers of Gold," journalist Frances Dinkelspiel tells the story of how this man shaped, and in its infancy saved, Los Angeles. Larry speaks with Dinkelspiel about what made Isaias Hellman such an integral part of the California we know today.