For tonight's Conversations with Great Minds - Thom is joined by Michael W. Hudson. Mike is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and was also an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. His writing has appeared in the publications like Forbes Magazine - the New York Times and Mother Jones. And much of that writing has been devoted to the foreclosure and mortgage crisis still plaguing the nation today - as well as the corruption in the big banks on Wall Street that underlie our current financial crisis. Mike is widely recognized for his work - and has been awarded the George Polk Award for magazine reporting - the John Hancock Award for business journalism and has received multiple accolades from the National Press Club and American Bar Association, among others. Currently - Mike is a Business and Finance writer with The Center for Public Integrity - and is the author of the book, "The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers.

Facebook's Initial Public Offering may create upwards of 1000 new millionaires. Do we really want more millionaires running around? Time to wake up to the very real HUMAN values that are part of a successful experience of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Talk about a marriage made in hell...Two of Sweden's most notorious murderers, the "Skara Cannibal" and the "Vampire Woman" are madly in love - and hope to get married according to a Swedish newspaper.

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. Earlier this week - California's San Onofre nuclear power plant had to be unexpectedly shut down after radioactive water was discovered leaking out of the plant's Unit 3 reactor. Officials claim the leak is fully contained within the concrete dome of the plant. This comes at the same time that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is warning that aging nuclear plants in the eastern and central portion of the United States might not be able to withstand an earthquake and its effects. But wait - there's more...