professor jeffrey sachs joining us. >>> up next on "the wall street journal report," protests in wisconsin. a face-off between state workers, the governor and the future of unions in america. we'll tell you what it all means and what could happen next. >>> later, listening in on the classical music industry. a world renowned conductor joins me to discuss the arts, audiences and competition. >>> as we take a break, take a look at how the stock market ended the week. mary! hey! wo you look great! thanks! it's this new wish yourself thin pgram. i just wish it and it happens. it's probably those fiber one bars you're eating. i know they help me stick to my diet. the bars are 90 calories and the fiber helps you feel full. 90 calories and high fiber. so that's why this diet thing is working. but it's weird because my wish for lorenzo came true. [ male announcer ] fiber one 90 calorie bars. hungry no. results yes. >>> the governor in wisconsin says it was about the budget fight. our members said we'll accept your budget cuts. this is not about the -- about anything but about busting unions. >> th

money printing and instability in the financial system now here's a little video of jeffrey sachs who is a professor at harvard and also you an advisor and here's his take on obama's new budget and we're turning around and we're just going to keep driving down the poorest of the poorest of the poor and that's where we are this is a game that's going to come to an end in a bad way do we really have to have our own egypt here in the united states are we going to actually understand that we have a society we're half the people have no voice in this country at all remarkable you know obama basically cutting money stealing money from the poor to give the rich he's the reverse robin hood that's correct and as a percentage of the budget now the military the pentagon budget has gone up and i actually have a chart here you can see where the three point six trillion of obama's budget goes along the bottom that's defense and social security the two major components of the budget and you could also add in the veteran benefits of one hundred twenty four billion and then medicare four hundred sixty

and on the other hand, we can have a jeffrey sachs who suggested that smithy markets have led to an equity exploitation and environmental degradation. and all this ,-comcome was but a socially awkward 18th century scottish philosopher who wrote after all, only two books his whole life which is hardly enough to give him a full professorship in an american university these days. so this is just something of a puzzle. who really is this person, adam smith? what were these momentous ideas, good or bad. how could a person an obscure profession in an obscure place in an obscure time have brought such tremendous effect on the world? if there's been as one might expect quite a range of writing on adam smith from all manner of perspectives and throat for disclosure i myself have contributed to that. smith has indeed been appropriate by many people including an entire academic disciplines, by political parties, by schools of economics, by moral agendas officers the own purposes. so it can make one wonder reasonably whether one might get a true measure of the man. where can one find an account of smi