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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Detroit Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin rhapsodizes on the big city, the Henry Ford, and that sushi grande dame, Clawson's Noble Fish.

Plus he thinks Detroit is sunny. Go Blue skies! Get the full story here.

On Tax Day, April 15th, I picked up the Wall Street Journal and was amazed to see an editorial titled "A Message from HENRY" by a California financial advisor.

The author, Mike Donahue, condemned the big and growing tax burden shouldered by high-earners like himself, a group he identified as "the HENRYs," in words so scorching that steam practically rose from the page.

"We may be only a small percentage of the population, but we pay a large portion of the taxes and employ many," Donahue concluded.

The Federal Reserve has a new plan to regulate the financial industry. Wall Street Journal reporter Damian Paletta talks with Kai Ryssdal about whether it will work.

The Wall Street Journal's Roger Thurow, co-author of the book "Enough," talks with Kai Ryssdal about why the markets may be impeding getting food to poor countries, and what may help.

Tomorrow President Obama will present his plan to fix the way the U.S. regulates finance. The "white paper" his Treasury Department will release at the same time will contain the specifics.

But already the administration is publicizing its overarching themes, particularly through official if unnamed leaks to the Wall Street Journal and an opinion piece Monday in the Washington Post by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House economics chief Larry Summers.

President Barack Obama is set to release on Wednesday the details of his proposed overhaul to how financial markets are regulated, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal Monday.

Reuters blogger Felix Salmon and the Wall Street Journal's Heidi Moore talk with Kai Ryssdal about GM's bondholder offer and the interesting action in the bond market this week.

Reaction to the banks' stress test results wasn't as gloomy as some predicted. Kai Ryssdal speaks with ClusterStock.com's John Carney and the Wall Street Journal's Heidi Moore about the fallout from those tests.

Kai Ryssdal speaks with The Wall Street Journal's Heidi Moore and T. Rowe Price's Andy Brooks about the banks' stress test results and bright spots that can be seen in our economy.

It was a busy week, but one story dominated headlines and stirred up emotions this week -- the AIG bonuses.

Kai Ryssdal discusses the bonuses with the Wall Street Journal's Heidi Moore and John Carney, writer for Clusterstock.com.