Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 31, 2012: Interview with David Wessel; Review of Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar's album 'Golden Horns.'

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(1.) Journalist DAVID WESSEL is economics editor for the Wall Street Journal and he writes the Capital column. His new book is Red Kink: Inside the High Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget. He says the book is his attempt to answer the questions: How did the US government get to this point? Where does the money come from? Where does the money go? And why the current trends aren't sustainable. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) Music critic MILO MILES reviews Golden Horns (on the Piranha label) a new recording by the Roma brass band Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar.