NPR: Hear: 'Dear President Obama'

Hear: 'Dear President Obama'

Manassas, Virginia, 11.03.08

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Today on Planet Money:

Americans picked their next president. As the transition began, Planet Money listeners drew up lists of ideas for how Barack Obama should approach the economy. Plus: Obama finds a home in the suburbs.

-- Money trader Will Aston-Reese scratches his head over the mystifying credit crisis.

--Urban planner Robert Lang, of Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, argues the presidential race turned in part on economic hardship in the mushrooming neighborhoods outside cities.

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Laura Conaway

5:01 PM ET | 11- 5-2008 | permalink

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