The High Price of Cheap Goods

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Today we'll investigate why retail discounting comes at a high cost. And historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead on the combined diaries of Marie Antoinette and Madame de la Tour du Pin. Then, the head writer for the The Onion’s entertainment section on his new book The Big Rewind, about how pop culture saved his life. Also, our latest Backstory segment looks at the early political career of State Senator Pedro Espada. Plus, Underreported gives an overview of the world's worst failed states.

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