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Midmorning ceased broadcast on February 20, 2012 and was replaced by The Daily Circuit.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Minnesota Public Radio Stories
How the markets are reacting to the credit downgrade
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in history. We talk to financial analysts and academics about what this unprecedented downgrade will mean.9:00 a.m.GuestsRoss Levine: Professor of Economics at Brown University and frequent consultant at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His forthcoming book is Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us, to be released in January 2012.Derek Thompson: Senior Editor and Business Editor at The AtlanticRoss Levin: President of Accredited Investors Inc., and in 2002 Worth Magazine named him one of the top 200 financial planners in the US.Heidi Moore: New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for Marketplace.Resources- The landscape of language
There are more than 6,000 languages in the world today, but many of them are disappearing. In a new book, linguist John McWhorter looks at how we define language, how languages evolve, and what we'll lose when these languages are gone.10:00 a.m.GuestsJohn McWhorter: Linguist and contributing editor at The New Republic. His new book is "What Language Is." He joins us from New York.Resources
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