It's been a topsy-turvy year on Wall Street with drama fueled by the credit crunch, foreclosure crisis and resulting implosion of Merrill Lynch. Michael Santoli , associate editor at Barron's Weekly argues this is bigger than usual Wall Street fluctuations. This time the financial sector needs to reinvent itself.
Barbara Ehrenreich says that the U.S. is being scarred by a deepening divide between the rich and poor. When she traveled throughout the U.S. to get a feel for how Americans are doing, she found that the last few years have been the worst in recent memory, and the wealth gap is growing wide every day. Her new book is This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation . Event : Barbara Ehrenreich will be speaking and signing books Wednesday, June 25 at 7 pm Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 East 17th Street
Bob Walsh , president of LS9 , talks about their new renewable energy technology that involves bugs producing crude oil. Beyond bugs, Joseph White , senior editor at the Wall Street Journal , and Joseph Romm , senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former director of the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the 1990's, discuss alternatives to oil and the future of renewables.