This week on The Bottom Line podcast: The tricky transition of financial power in Washington. We talk with Harvard economist Linda Bilmes about the kind of money crisis a President Obama will face.
Host Curt Nickisch looks at how Massachusetts is lining up the “shovel-ready” projects Obama’s calling for. And where does that buzzphrase, “shovel-ready,” come from?
Plus, author Stephen Greenspan writes a book on gullibility — and then admits he got duped by Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
And WBUR’s David Boeri hooks up with newly laid off Bostonians trying to ease their worries with a “pink slip party,” which is apparently back in vogue these days.
