The Obama campaign detoured his original acceptance speech planned for the outdoors after hearing thunderstorms in the forecast. Might it also have heard August employment numbers? Then there was that thunder-stealing speech Bill Clinton gave Wednesday during prime time, not to mention the one by first lady Michelle Obama the night before.

Conservative voice Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, joins the returning Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and co-host Matt Miller on the latest installment of “Left, Right & Center.”

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