barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. like just about everyone else, i enjoy a good show, and the inauguration of a president is one of those spectacles of democracy that can make us remember we're part of something big and enduring. so for a few hours this past monday, the pomp and circumstance inspired us to think government of, by, and for the people really is just that, despite the predatory threats that stalk it. unfortunately, the mood didn't last. so help me, every now and then, as the cameras panned upward to of that great dome towering above the ceremony, i was reminded of something the good feeling of the moment could not erase. it's the journalists curse to have a good time spoiled by the reality beyond the pageantry. in particular on this crisp january day, i thought about the latest revelation of the skullduggery that often goes on in the s

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. junot diaz is known to start conversations some folks would rather not have. here he is at a recent conference in baltimore, urging the audience to take a page from jose marti, the revolutionary poet and hero of cuba's independence from spain -- >> you need to cultivate the marti mind. the marti mind is simply that, as much love as i have for my own group, i have for every other group. to take possessive investment in each others' struggles. where whatever's happening to the gay community, is happening to us. whatever's happening in the asian community, that's us. instead of possessive commodified investment in our identities, we need to take possessive investment in our other communities' struggles. >> the life and work of junot diaz contain many worlds, and that makes him all the more worth listening to. his imagin

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. just before the holidays, we asked you, our viewers, to recommend the one book you thought president obama should read as he prepares himself for his second term in office. as ever, your suggestions were thoughtful, provocative and eclectic -- from books by authors who have appeared as guests on this broadcast, to works by the late john steinbeck and a. a. milne, the creator of winnie-the-pooh. you can see a list at our website, billmoyers.com. many of you asked for my choice, too. this is it, paul krugman's "end this depression now!" it's both prescription and warning. our current obsession with slashing the deficit and avoiding that well-known and worn fiscal cliff is killing us, krugman writes, getting in the way of what really needs to be done, which is dedicating government to creating jobs and getting us back t

barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. so as you know, we avoided the cliff, at least for the moment. but only for the moment. a bigger grand canyon looms ahead, in about two months, as the government reaches its debt ceiling and can't borrow any more money. president obama wants to lift that ceiling. the republicans don't. and it appears we're heading for another "thelma and louise" ride to the edge. remember -- they went over. we'll discuss that possibility next week with paul krugman, the nobel laureate in economics and "new york times" columnist whose bestselling book, "end this depression now!" calls for full employment as an alternative to austerity. read it, then send us the question you would like me to put to paul krugman. meanwhile, another reality beckons and there's a menace more threatening than the fiscal cliff ever was. what should really

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