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This week on\\xa0Here\\u2019s The Thing, Alec talks about the financial crisis with Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. Stiglitz shows no restraint when unleashing criticism of presidential policies -- on both sides. Of President Barack Obama\\u2019s financial-industry rescue plan, Stiglitz said that whomever designed it was "either in the pocket of the banks or \\u2026 incompetent." Stiglitz talks to Alec about growing up in Gary, Indiana and how that impacted his decision to become an economist.

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