Holiday Consumerism/Floating World/Branchettes

Holiday Consumerism: The Christmas shopping season is underway. For retail stores, it’s the busiest and most profitable time of year. It’s also a time when economists watch consumer spending more closely to gauge the overall health of the economy. Host Frank Stasio leads a conversation about the retail sector, America’s consumer economy, and the forces that drive us to buy. Guests include: Joel Huber, professor of marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business; Michael Salemi, professor of economics at UNC-Chapel Hill; and Betsy Taylor, president of the Center for a New American Dream. Listener Call-In. (32:00)

The Book of the Floating World: Host Frank Stasio talks with NC State poet and professor Jon Thompson about his new collection of poems that explicates a series of photographs taken of the post WWII American occupation of Japan. (12:00)

Good Bye to a Branchette: Host Frank Stasio talks with Joe Newberry of the NC State Arts Council about Sister Ethel Eliot of the Branchettes, the legendary NC singing group. She passed away this week. (5:00)

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