Self-Promotion Alert

I’ll be on Jim Braude’s New England Cable News show tonight at 8pm, to discuss the economic speech Obama is supposed to have begun delivering at 11am ET (all I see right now is an empty podium and lots of fidgety reporters). Expect us to touch on everything from TARP to decifit spending to Madoff. Jim is never shy about putting me -- or his other guests -- onthe spot, so it should be fun. We're on live beginning at 8pm, with Shana Orczyk of Peak Financial Management appearing alongside... You can read the prepared text of Obama's speech after the jump.

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