Guests

Maureen Conway, Rana Foroohar, Adam Winkler 

Host

Michelle Harven

Writing and Production

Written by Keith Schumann with input from T.A. Frank, Miguel Padró, Felicia Davis, and the Business & Society Team.

Recorded by Ben Eyler and edited by Jesse Krinsky.

The Business & Society team wishes to thank the audio technicians and everyone involved in the production of this episode, including:

• Austin Madert
• Lorry Saunders
• Dan Lebiednik
• Daniel Woldorff
• Larry Buhl
• Lucy Huang

Music Samples Featured in this Episode

Chad Crouch – Algorithms (Excerpted form of the track; used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License)

Chad Crouch—Negentropy (Excerpted form of the track; used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License)

Kai Engel—Dark Alleys (Excerpted form of the track; used under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0)

Tobacco Road – Storyblocks Audio

Archival Audio

CNN, September 15, 2008

CNBC, September 15, 2008

Associated Press, September 29, 2008