IW Archives 2009 Nov 06

Alex talks with Chris Freiberg, the Daily News-Miner journalist who reported on an 81 year old man tasered by Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Security Forces Squadron in Alaska. Greg Gordon, a reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, talks with Alex about Goldman Sachs Group peddling more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages and never telling the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting. Regular Guest Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster talks about the economy.