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The brilliant young men and women who were plucked from college by booming banks are now looking for other options. This is a good thing, and history proves it, says Stephen Dubner, co-author of the "Freakonomics" book and blog. Americans can look forward to talented, hard-working people spreading out through the economy, in ways that may buoy our GDP.

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John and Adaora talk with veterans of World War II and the war in Iraq about how they're spending Veterans Day and what it means to them.

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The Federal Reserve Board has refused to name the banks receiving part of $2 trillion in emergency loans. The Fed also refuses to disclose what kind of collateral was offered up for the loans, so Bloomberg News is suing to find out. But could identifying the recipients send investors into another panic?

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"If you're not at war, you're always training for it. You train for war, pray for peace." — Corporal John Hall, U.S. Marine Corps. John and Adaora talk with veterans of the Vietnam War and the Korean War about how they're spending Veterans Day and what it means to them.

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"That would be taking the catastrophe of the last seven years and enshrining it in our law." — Ben Wizner on creating a new "National Security Court" to replace Guantanamo Bay

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While the rest of the United States — indeed, the world — was dancing, carousing and toasting VB Day, California voters gave the Obama administration an idea of what the future's going to look like, and a serious reality check: letting go of the brutal, stupid politics of the last 20 years is not going to come easy. With no statewide office races this year — Gov. Schwarzenegger's tenure ends in 2010, neither California senate seat was up, and the legislature is locked into place by gerrymandering that rises to the level of abstract art — this California election was all about ballot propositions.

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