Podcasts

DeLong Wants Fed's Focus on Financial System Regulation
Bradford DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talks about the Federal Reserve's role in the regulation of the U.S. financial system, investing in stocks versus bonds, and DeLong's assessment of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Kahn of UCLA Says New York, Los Angeles Are Green Cities

Dedrick Calls U.S. Trade Gap Calculation `Misleading'

Linden of Berkeley Says Apple's iPod `Doing Very Nicely'

Varian of Google Says Internet Needs To Be More Global
Hal Varian, chief economist at Google Inc., talks about the outlook for Internet search technology, the third edition of his textbook "Microeconomic Analysis," and improving the efficiency of information gathering. Google is the owner of the world's largest Internet search engine. Varian and Keene spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association for Business Economics

The Civil-Military Divide
As a result of the drop in American public support for the war in Iraq, members of the military and their families are feeling increasingly isolated and misunderstood as they bear the brunt for simply carrying out orders. However, this also highlights a divide which has existed between members of America's civil and military establishments since Vietnam. In fact surveys reveal that elite members of civil and military institutions remain suspicious of one another, and continue to harbour strong negative stereotypes about the other. It turns out this has wide-reaching implications for government policy, particularly on the way wars are waged. On Late Night Live we explore the history of this divide and look at how a more coordinated approach to Iraq - one which included greater civilian and even humanitarian input - might have turned out.

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Peter Mandelson