USA Inc: Anthony Bianco, columnist Business Week, author, The Bully of Bentonville

Taped: 06/08/2006. The scope of Wal-Mart is truly breathtaking. If the company's economic output were measured in the way we measure countries it would be the twentieth largest in the world. If it were a city it would be the fifth largest in the United States. But what kind of city is it? You can love it for its amazingly low prices. Or despise it for the way it treats its workers and wipes out mom and pop stores when it rolls into town. Tony Bianco, senior writer for Business Week magazine, discusses what he learned in his two year study of Wal-Mart for his book "The Bully of Bentonville." U$A Inc, currently not running on CUNY TV, offered a unique opportunity for senior members of the business community to share their thoughts on important business issues with a broad-based New York audience. While many business shows today seem focused on generating sound bites and tend to treat business as if it were a blood sport, U$A Inc allows for deeper discussion of the complex philosophical and ethical issues arising almost daily in the business world. Host: Sarah Bartlett, Bloomberg Chair in Business Journalism at the Master's Program in Business Journalism at Baruch College. Watch more at http://www.tv.cuny.edu/series/usainc