Van Jones and Eliot Spitzer: The Financial Sector is Sucking America Dry
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/03/27/Culture_Project_Blueprint_for_Accountability Van Jones, acclaimed author and President of Rebuild the Dream, and Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, discuss the actors who triggered the 2008 financial collapse and the ramifications of the regulatory failure on middle class America. ---- Cul... Read more
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- -: Van Jones and Eliot Spitzer: The Financial Sector is Sucking America Dry
April 7, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/03/27/Culture_Project_Blueprint_for_Accountability Van Jones, acclaimed author and President of Rebuild the Dream, and Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, discuss the actors who triggered the 2008 financial collapse and the ramifications of the regu...
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- -: Richard Wolff: 'Capitalism Is Not Working'
February 25, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/14/Monthly_Update_with_Richard_D_Wolff_February_2012 Economics professor Richard Wolff attributes the global economic crisis to the failure of the capitalist system. He argues that the root cause of the problem is over-borrowing, and that capitalism runs ...
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- -: TEDxGoodenoughCollege - Grzegorz Lewicki - Collapse of Complex Society: Learning From History
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Greg is a philosopher, political scientist and prize-winning publicist. An editor of Krakow based Pressje Quarterly and the founding member of the Institute for Research on Civilizations. He authored and edited expert reports for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland and analyses on cultural ...
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- -: Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust
November 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of ...
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- -: Time for "Financial Survivalism?" - Peter Gosselin
September 19, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/Surviving_the_Great_Recession Los Angeles Times Financial Correspondent Peter G. Gosselin wonders if it's time for a new "financial survivalism," and warns American workers to keep an eye on their employee benefits packages. ----- Housing bust, cre...
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- -: Michael Bloomberg - Economic Crisis May Get Worse
September 23, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/17/Michael_Bloomberg_on_the_Economy_in_Crisis Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg, L.P., warns of a further worsening of the current U.S. economic crisis. ----- Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses a Georgetown audience on ...
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- -: China, the U.S. and the Economic Crisis - Niall Ferguson
November 14, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/21/Geopolitical_Consequences_of_the_Credit_Crunch Harvard historian Niall Ferguson warns that the greatest danger of the current financial crisis could be the possible collapse of economic relations between China and America. ----- Professor and histor...
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- -: Are We Headed for a Soviet-Style Collapse? - Dmitry Orlov
March 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_Social_Collapse_Best_Practices Author Dmitry Orlov explains his notion of "Superpower Collapse Soup," and compares the modern United States to the USSR prior to that country's collapse in the early 1990s. Orlov argues the two nations are ...
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- -: Dmitry Orlov's Economic Worst-Case Scenario
March 4, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_Social_Collapse_Best_Practices Author Dmitry Orlov criticizes the U.S. government's response to the economic crisis, arguing that current popular economic models are not equipped to deal with the problem. Orlov explains his worst-case sce...
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- -: WSJ Editor Defends 'Too Big to Fail' Banks - David Wessel
October 5, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Ben_Bernanke_vs_the_Great_Panic_David_Wessel David Wessel , Wall Street Journal economics editor and author of In Fed We Trust, explains why some financial institutions are viewed as "too big to fail." Although these large institutions are inherently ...
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