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Ryan Brecht, an economist who forecasts economic data for the U.S., tells how he's looking past the numbers and thinking about the people hurt by lost jobs and higher prices.

If the Comic Book Guy character on "The Simpsons" were an economist, this might be his characterization of the next five days: Worst...Week...Ever!

Three weeks after the $700 billion bailout package seems a good time to find out how it's going. To chat about the bailout and who's lining up to get their share, Kai Ryssdal called economist Doug Elmendorf at the Brookings Institution.

With markets doing, well, better, what's going on with the rest of the economy? Another way of asking that question: Are we in a recession?

Kai Rysdall brings up the dreaded "R" word with economist Steve Fazzari

Having the government buy stakes in banks as part of the $700-plus bailout program is a significant change financially and ideologically.

Kai Ryssdal asks economist Robert Litan how this is going to work.

Following this economic crisis is almost like getting a degree in finance. The latest term-of-the-day is "commercial paper." Reporter Jeff Tyler asks an economist to help unravel that one.

Bailout supporters took a lot of heat for handing that cash over to Wall Street. But commentator and economist Andrew Samwick argues it's actually Main Street that's usually on the receiving end of government help.

In a recent study, 62% of homeowners believed their home had gone up or stayed the same in value in the past year.

Commentator and behavioral economist Dan Ariely says in a falling market your house is almost always worth more to you than anyone else.

Wall Street will continue to be able to take out emergency loans from the Federal Reserve through next year.

Host Kai Ryssdal asks economist Cary Leahy about the impact of the Fed's lending.

Commentator and economist Susan Lee kicks off our series on summer beach reads with Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt."