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Featured Segments

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Sheilah Kast talks with Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC)

Rep. Brad Miller explains why predatory lending laws enacted by North Carolina in 1999 have kept foreclosure numbers very low in his state.

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AARP’s David Certner joins the conversation.

Congressman Miller and David Certner, AARP’s Director of Legislative Policy, discuss pending legislation in the U.S. Congress aimed at helping consumers who face foreclosure.

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Sandra Thompson from the FDIC weighs in.

AARP’s David Certner and Sandra Thompson, Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection discuss the FDIC’s roll in helping lenders and borrowers restructure loans.

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Maryland’s Commissioner of Financial Regulation joins Sheilah Kast.

Sarah Bloom Raskin provides a detailed account of Maryland’s emergency legislation to protect people faced with foreclosure.

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Archive

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Learn about the payments that are part of the federal stimulus package. Make sure you get the benefits due to you.

 

The Fearful Word: "Foreclosure"

"Inside E Street" talks with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to learn what Congress is doing to stem the foreclosure tide.

Health Care and Medicare

"Inside E Street" examines the latest Medicare and Social Security Boards of Trustees reports. Things don’t look good for Medicare.

Protecting Your Nest Egg

Watch as "Inside E Street" examines the average person's savings and investments in this uncertain economy.

The Candidates on Health Care

The presidential candidates discuss their plans for the future of health care in the United States.

American Health Care: Looking Globally

Inside E Street takes a look at universal health care at home and abroad.

AARP’s David Certner joins the conversation

Congressman Miller and David Certner, AARP’s Director of Legislative Policy, discuss pending legislation in the U.S. Congress aimed at helping consumers who face foreclosure.

Sheila

The Host

Through most of her distinguished reporting career, Sheilah Kast has focused on the economy and workplace and how they affect people's lives. Well known to viewers of public television, ABC News, and CNN, she has covered the White House and Congress.

Kast also reported on the Washington aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Her stories included an investigation of anthrax in the mails and the struggles of bereaved Pentagon families to secure benefits.

At The Washington Star, in her first reporting job, Kast covered financial regulation, taxes, and energy. Her expertise in these important issues eventually led her to start a national public-television show, "This Week in Business," which she hosted in association with Business Week magazine.

Ms. Kast is a skilled interviewer. She has often hosted NPR'S Weekend Edition Sunday and has her own current-affairs interview show on public radio in Maryland.

Brad Miller

Guests

North Carolina's first elected representative to its 13th and newest congressional district, which stretches from the state capitol of Raleigh, along the Virginia border counties, to Greensboro's Piedmont Triad region. He is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Science and Technology Committee. He also serves on the Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.

Certner

David Certner-Legislative Policy Director, AARP

David Certner is the Legislative Counsel and Director of Legislative Policy, and is a member of AARP’s Government Relations Senior Leadership team. He has been with AARP since 1982.

Sandra Thompson

Sandra L. Thompson

Director of the FDIC’s Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection. Thompson directs risk management and consumer protection activities relating to approximately 5200 FDIC supervised institutions. She previously served as the FDIC’s Deputy to the Vice Chairman and led the Corporation's Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes supervisory activities.

Raskin

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State of Maryland. She was previously an associate in New York for the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter.

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