Arwa Gunja here, on the night shift.
Our partners over at The New York Times are working on an exclusive story about the mine explosion in West Virginia that left 29 people dead. The story will shed new light on what exactly went so wrong and the different safety violations that led to the tragedy. National correspondent Ian Urbina joins us in the morning to share his reporting.
Today, President Obama visited Wall Street to push for greater oversight of the financial industry. This got us wondering whether oversight is enough to stop dirty dealings. Do we behave differently if we know we are being watched? Tomorrow we’ll talk with Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University. And we want to ask you, our listeners, if you spend your money differently when there is someone monitoring your spending. If you share a credit card bill or bank account with a spouse or loved one, how does that affect the choices you make a shopping mall, for example? Call us at 1-877-8-MYTAKE or leave us a comment here on our website.
Anna Sale here on the day shift.
President Obama is just across town from The Takeaway HQ in Lower Manhattan today, making a direct appeal to Wall Street top brass for stricter market regulations. Tomorrow, we'll bring you highlights and reaction to the speech. We'll also look at his administration's political and financial relationships with traders, banks, investment houses, and how Obama is maneuvering around the policies that he inherited from the Clinton administration. Bill Clinton told ABC last weekend that his advisors "were wrong" on derivatives, and he "was wrong to take" their advice, "because the argument on derivatives was that these things are expensive and sophisticated and only a handful of investors will buy them."
After our conversation this morning about Google's foreign policy, we put the same questions to the woman known as Google's Secretary of State, Nicole Wong. Check back to the site later today to hear what she has to say.
And 25 years ago, Coke switched its famous secret recipe to "New Coke." The change caused Coke fans everywhere to break out in hysteria until the soft-drink company brought back Classic-Coke a few months later. Tomorrow we’ll look at how Coke has managed to keep its fans so devoted to its secret recipe over the years. And we’ll ask why America’s great secret recipes remain so compelling from one generation to the next. We'll be joined by a very special guest — John Hockenberry's mother, who refuses to share the family's secret cookie recipe with her son (even though his sister has it). We're starting the conversation about this now: Do you have a secret recipe that you won't tell anyone? Tell us about it (you don't have to reveal the actual recipe!).
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