In this week’s installment of “Left, Right & Center,” panelists Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley, Matt Miller and Chrystia Freeland take stock of the unemployment crisis in our country, which is a gigantic enough topic as it is. But wait — there’s much more. Take the Fed’s secret loans to big banks to help them survive during the recent (and ongoing) financial crisis, for one. And how about that Judge Jed Rakoff? Listen in as these great minds converge for half an hour, even if they can’t always think alike. But that’s half the fun of it. –KA

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