Dec 17th, 2008 · Normally at this time of year, Ed Fasani's company caters dozens of holiday office parties for financial services firms on the waterfront in Jersey City, N.J. But business is down about 60 percent this year. Fasani tells Renee Montage that he's had to lay off staff, and he's even taken a night job to make ends meet.
Oct 13th, 2008 · Economists Robert Merton and Myron Scholes won the 1997 Nobel Prize in economics. Their formula for evaluating stock options laid the ground work for risk-management in modern financial markets. Naseem Taleb, a professor at New York University and hedge fund owner, wants their prize revoked. Taleb talks with Renee Montage about why.
Sep 2nd, 2008 · Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, talks with Renee Montage about the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav. The Corps is tracking the water levels and monitoring communication among other federal and state agencies, local levee boards and liaisons with all 13 coastal parishes.
Jun 4th, 2008 · The race for the Democratic presidential nomination will go down in the history books. Barack Obama added another chapter Tuesday by securing enough delegates to claim the party's presidential nomination. Still, Hillary Clinton hasn't conceded defeat. Host Renee Montage talks to NPR's Don Gonyea, who has been covering Obama, and NPR's David Greene, who has followed Clinton, about the end of the primary season.
May 17th, 2005 · Renee Montage talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new collection of his letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, has been published recently.