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  <content>&lt;p&gt;Get an update on where the economy is headed by watching &amp;ldquo;Office Hours,&amp;rdquo; a half-hour weekly talk show on the &lt;a href="http://www.bigtennetwork.com/"&gt;Big Ten Network&lt;/a&gt;, which airs at 4 p.m. EST/3 p.m. CDT today (Aug. 31).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.news.wisc.edu/story_images/0000/1521/oh.jpg" alt="Office Hours with Ken Goldstein" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;UW-Madison real estate and urban economics professor &lt;a href="http://www.bus.wisc.edu/realestate/faculty/davis.asp"&gt;Morris Davis&lt;/a&gt;, who served on the senior staff of the Federal Reserve Board, and economics professor &lt;a href="http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~scholz/"&gt;John Karl Scholz&lt;/a&gt;, who served as deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Treasury Department during the Clinton administration, join host &lt;a href="http://polisci.wisc.edu/people/person.aspx?id=1052"&gt;Ken Goldstein&lt;/a&gt; to discuss the current state of the economy and take a look forward.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The UW-Madison experts, who both appeared on episodes of &amp;ldquo;Office Hours&amp;rdquo; earlier this year to discuss the escalating economic crisis, also debate tools the Bush and Obama administrations have used to deal with the sagging economy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;About &amp;lsquo;Office Hours&amp;rsquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Office Hours&amp;rdquo; invites guests from many areas of the UW-Madison campus to share their work with viewers across the country. Past episodes have touched on subjects including the economy, evolution, the common cold and stem cell research.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The show is produced by &lt;a href="http://www.uc.wisc.edu/"&gt;University Communications&lt;/a&gt;; additional production help and writing comes from students in Goldstein&amp;rsquo;s upper-level class on political communication.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More information about &amp;ldquo;Office Hours,&amp;rdquo; including videos of past shows, is &lt;a href="http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/officehours/abouttheshow.html"&gt;available online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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