Today’s podcast focuses on Nouriel Roubini’s controversial arguments on the state of the marketplace, the ramifications of the Federal Reserve’s meetings today in Washington, and the fallout for Democrats after Republicans swept key gubernatorial races by wide margins in Virginia and healthy ones in New Jersey.

Americans took to the polls today for the first time since the hope and change of the 2008 elections. In three key races — a special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia — Republicans look to begin their comeback, while Democrats looked to defend their territory.

The end of the current North Korean regime is the only plausible solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis, and to the humanitarian disaster Kim Jong Il has inflicted on the North Korean people. The solution to all of the problems we face in North Korea begins with a subversive outreach to its people.

Today’s podcast is a break from our normal discussion of the marketplace, with a conversation focusing on the lessons and potential outcomes of the off-year elections, including the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia and the special election in New York’s 23rd District with TNL Senior Writer Brad Jackson.

Today’s podcast focuses on the fallout in the wake of yesterday’s GDP number, the reports this morning of the fall in Consumer Spending, and what the holiday shopping season could bring — for good and for ill — to the American economy.

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the latest Bloomberg report on the AIG backstory and Tim Geithner’s role in determining the size of the taxpayer bailout while President of the New York Fed, and a discussion on the latest GDP numbers — what they mean and what they don’t.

Whatever one thinks of the validity of the “war on science” charge against the Right, the threats to scientific integrity and scientific progress from the Left are numerous, and they are very real. In a three-part series, Dan McLaughlin considers six major species of dangers to science and the role of the Left (inside and outside of government) in promoting them.

Today’s podcast focuses on Christina Romer’s comments about a VAT, and George Soros’s latest efforts against the free market: the creation of a $50 million thinktank, intended to be endowed with more than $200 million, focused on the effort of ending the free market and making the case for massive government regulation.

Norman Podhoretz’s admonitions to his fellow Jews bespeak a desire for all-encompassing change that is ironically akin to that of his rivals. Jewish liberals believe that, if only America could be changed, they’d be happy. Podhoretz, and many other neoconservatives, believe that, if only the Jews could be changed, they and the Jews would be happy. It is, perhaps, a more modest ambition, but it is no less telling.

Today’s podcast focuses on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s announcement that the government-run health care plan will be included in the Senate version of health care legislation, while giving states the ability to opt-out.