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Gary Aguirre on the Bernie Madoff scandal and the failure of the SEC to properly regulate and therefore prevent one of the biggest swindles in American history. Mr. Aguirre headed a major SEC investigation of one the world's largest hedge funds for insider trading and market manipulation. He testified in 2006 before a US Senate committee regarding the risks hedge funds pose to the capital markets and the failure of the regulatory system to contain those risks. Last year, he assisted a Senate committee in drafting a bill to regulate hedge funds. He holds two law degrees, including an LL.M. in securities regulation and international law. His articles are published in academic and professional journals, including one on Enron's collapse which won national honors. His forthcoming book will focus on the risks hedge funds pose to the capital markets. Aguirre has been an outspoken critic of the SEC, saying that "We can't have two sets of securities laws, one set for those with political connections or those with the right contacts, and another set for the rest of us. When evidence points the SEC to powerful people, the umpire is looking the other way when he ought to be calling the violation."

Michael Lind on the effort by Southern senators to undermine the northern auto industry. Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of a number of books, including Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics and What Lincoln Believed. His ground-breaking study of American grand strategy, The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life was published by Oxford University Press in October 2006. Mr. Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper s Magazine, and The New Republic. From 1991 to 1994, he was executive editor of The National Interest. Mr. Lind has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Prospect (U.K.), The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, and other leading publications. In a new article published at Salon.com, Michael Lind suggests that the South is engaged in a form of renewed civil war as it's Senators oppose a bail-out for the North's auto industry, while they give subsidies to foreign manufacturers making cars with non-union workers in their states.

Dr. Robert Bell on the Obama green agenda. Dr. Bell is a Professor of Management and Chairman of the Economics Department at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of THE GREEN BUBBLE Waste into Wealth; the New Energy Revolution. He was the featured speaker at the Fast 50 awards ceremony at the Paris Bourse, November 2007; the inaugural speaker, the HEC-Deloitte Club of Energy and Finance, La Maison des polytechniciens, Paris, November 2007.

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