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The Retirement Gamble: Are 401(k) Fees Fair?
04/23/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: high 401(k) fees, Wall Street, Social Security, Frontline, Martin Smith
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Tonight on PBS a new documentary looks at how 401(k)s are doing more to enrich Wall Street than workers who are using them to save for retirement.
But first- one listener comment about yesterday’s program—on which we discussed a forum on US Cuba relations that will take place in Tampa tomorrow.
Here’s what one listener had to say:
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For most Americans, traditional retirement is now a pipe dream: Six in 10 people believe they'll have to ...
2 commentsWhy Has No One Been Prosecuted for the Wall Street Scandal?
01/18/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wall street, crimes, prosecution, Frontline, Martin Smith, PBS
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk with the producer of a new PBS-Frontline documentary film called The Untouchables. The filmmaker is Martin Smith. From the Frontline press release:
"More than four years since the financial crisis, not one senior Wall Street executive has faced criminal prosecution for fraud. Are Wall Street executives "too big to jail"?
In The Untouchables, premiering Jan. 22, 2013, at 10 p.m. on PBS (locally on WEDU)...
Be the first to commentFiresign Theatre's Phil Proctor on The BBC Murders, Frontline's Emma Schwartz on Dark Money, and Listeners on the Election
11/06/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Firesign Theater, Phil Proctor, Capital Theater, Emma Schwartz, Frontline, PBS, Rob Lorei, WMNF
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up next we'll talk with Firesign Theatre's Phil Proctor about his appearance next week in performances of The BBC Murders at the Capital Theater in Clearwater.
Later we'll talk with PBS/Frontline reporter Emma Schwartz about a [series of investigative reports by Frontline and ProPublica on "dark money"](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline...
Be the first to commentAmerica's Dental Care Crisis
06/26/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: dental care, crisis, Florida, Frontline, PBS, Miles O'Brien, death, bankruptcy
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk about the dental crisis facing the country- it’s the topic of a new documentary tonight on PBS. We’ll also discuss yesterday’s Supreme Court Decision on Arizona’s controversial immigration law……
While we await the Supreme Court decision’s on President Obama’s health care reform plan—there’s another aspect of health care that’s rarely discussed- dental care.
Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Y...
Be the first to commentPBS Frontline Documentary OBAMA'S DEAL Premiers Tonight
04/13/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: health care reform, Frontline, PBS, Michael Kirk
Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF's Radioactiviity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up a look at the deal making and industry pressure that led to the version of health care reform recently passed by Congress. But first some listener comments about last Thursday's program on the increasingly strident tone of political dialogue in the US.
Barack Obama promised change. Then he took on one of Washington's toughest issues: health care. During his first year in office, he found himself making one deal aft...
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