- -: WSJ Editor Likens Economic Relief to Surgery - David Wessel
October 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Ben_Bernanke_vs_the_Great_Panic_David_Wessel David Wessel likens Ben Bernanke's efforts to avoid an economic depression to a surgeon struggling to save a patient on the operating table. Comparing collapsing banks to a circulatory system, Wessel says, ...
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- -: Was Iceland a Target for Economic Hit Men? - John Perkins
December 12, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/18/John_Perkins_How_to_Remake_the_Global_Economy John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, blames Iceland's economic collapse on the tactics of economic hit men from multi-national corporations . ----- Economic hit man ...
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- -: Eliot Spitzer: New Banking Reforms a 'Regulatory Charade'
January 5, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/12/Eliot_Spitzer-Governments_and_Markets-From_Rand_to_Feinberg Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer says the new wave of banking laws coming out of Congress is a "regulatory charade." He argues all of the mechanisms were already in place to avoid the f...
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- -: US: The Next USSR? Ferguson Says Economy on Edge of Chaos
January 26, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/08/The_Financial_Crisis_Will_It_Lead_to_Americas_Decline Harvard University history professor Niall Ferguson compares the United States economy to complex systems in nature. The U.S. financial system may appear from the outside to be in equilibrium, says...
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- -: Going Out with a Bang: The Death of a Massive Star
March 29, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/07/Wonderfest_2010_The_Lives_of_Stars_with_Ken_Croswell Ken Croswell, author of The Lives of Stars, describes what happens to a massive star at the end of its life cycle. ----- This program was recorded at the 12th Annual Wonderfest, the San Francisco ...
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- -: Stiglitz: Did US Economists Learn a Lesson from Collapse?
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_business_finance Joseph Stiglitz believes that many economists haven't changed their perspectives on market efficiency since the financial collapse and worries that without new economic thinking and regulation, they are primed to make the same mistake...
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- -: Is Society on the Verge of Collapse?
August 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/25/Why_Cities_Grow_Corporations_Die_and_Life_Gets_Faster Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West discusses the implications of a society that defines success as perpetual exponential growth. West suggests that a collapse may be as inevitable as a heart at...
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Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Jarred Diamond shares his thoughts on the factors that why societies fail to survive.
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