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We are "Sustaining Members" of Minnesota Public Radio. We made the decision to donate monthly to MPR the year that George Bush bought the 2000 election and have been doing so since. I felt strongly then that public radio was the only news source that came even close to presenting balanced, in-depth news, and I still feel the same way. Not that I agree with everything on MPR but I still think it's the best somewhat "mainstream" news around.

George, who'd rather listen to news than watch it on TV or read it online, listens to MPR literally all.day.long when he's home in the summer. So he heard that our friend Louis Johnston, Economics Prof. at St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict's, was going to be on the Midday talk show today. He's one of their resident econ. experts. I got the chance to listen this morning and it was such a good, sane discussion that I decided I'd post a link to it so others can listen.

Here's the link: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/29/midday1/

I won't offer much more opinion on the show except that it's reasonable and informational and that Louis does a great job making economics understandable to average people (probably why he's on the radio!). Louis is generally much more optimistic than I am about the state of the world, but hey, he's the expert so we can hope he's right. (Hi Louis!)
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Connie said…
I havn't listened to the MPR, but I'm wondering if it sort of balances what (I too read) the Automatic Earth says.

There are a lot of economists who are writing and some of it is pretty darn scrry. Add to it that you wouldn't want to meet most of our politicians in a dark ally - and I include our president in that.
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