This week on a jam-packed Bottom Line podcast: We look back on a not-so-merry Christmas for the U.S. economy –the worst holiday season for retailers since 1970, according to one trade group.
- » Host Curt Nickisch re-visits a Boston cookie company that believes flat is the new up.
- » WBUR’s Andrea Shea re-examines literature’s stingiest skinflint: Ebenezer Scrooge.
- » Here & Now host Robin Young asks how we calculate the unemployment rate. (Hint: It should be much higher.)
- » Curt examines the seemingly indefatigable Massachusetts hospital industry, which is showing signs of sickness.
- » And Anthony Brooks reports on a middle-class Massachusetts family that’s just getting by on $150,000 a year.
Don’t miss the first Bottom Line of 2009. And let us know what you think of our new show in the comments.
Links heard on The Bottom Line:
- » Bake Or Break: WBUR’s series of profiles on Dancing Deer Baking Company
- » The Vanishing Middle Class: Inside Out
