Business Columnist, Washington Post
Business columnist for the Washington Post, he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, for his writing on the economy
PROFILE
Steven Pearlstein
Guest
FROM Steven Pearlstein
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Are we heading toward a recession or not? Wall Street has had a bumpy ride for the last few weeks. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reassured markets that the Fed is independent of the White House. The Dow’s back up. The president says the economy is the best ever.
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Good Food
Julia Collin Davison, the shutdown’s effect, and a visit to Fiona America’s Test Kitchen host Julia Collin Davison drops by to talk recipe testing and Cook’s Illustrated, which recently turned 25. We’re also looking at how the federal government shutdown affects what’s on our plates.
The Treatment
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Art Talk
Richard Diebenkorn at Weisman Museum at Pepperdine Hunter Drohojowska-Philp welcomes a show of previously unseen paintings.
Design and Architecture
A radical act of rezoning; UK prepares for Brexit Planners are calling Minneapolis the most radical city in America, after a vote to allow duplexes and triplexes to be built on lots previously zoned for only single-family homes. What are the chances something like this could happen in LA?