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- -: Howard Dean: Fund Healthcare with Carbon Tax

July 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Howard_Deans_Prescription_for_Real_Healthcare_Reform Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean discusses his idea to fund healthcare reform by implementing a carbon tax. "Why not use a tax that heals the earth...while you're healing the healthcare system?" ...

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- -: Health Care and the Budget

September 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Top_Senate_Aides_Debate_Health_Care_Reform A panel of Senate advisors and New School President Bob Kerrey debate how much the proposed health care reform bill is projected to cost American taxpayers over time. ----- New School President and former U...

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- -: Does Race Drive Opportunity? - John Powell

September 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/07/POWER_John_A_Powell_on_Opportunity_and_Race John A. Powell, head of the Kirwan Institute, discusses the differing opportunity structures found within minority communities. "Opportunity in this country is deeply, profoundly racialized," says Powell. -...

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- -: Summers to Big Banks: Why Cash for Bonuses, None for Lending?

February 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/29/The_US_Economic_Outlook_with_Lawrence_Summers Lawrence Summers berates big banks for the hypocrisy of handing out large corporate bonuses while reducing lending and protesting government fees. "I don't understand how you can logically maintain that pa...

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- -: $1.3 Trillion Saved? Nancy Pelosi on Healthcare and US Debt

April 14, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/06/Nancy_Pelosi_Affordable_Healthcare_for_America_Act House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses the importance of a "pay-as-you-go" policy to the Democratic Party's plans to reduce "heaping mountains of (government) debt." Pelosi further argues that the healt...

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- -: Are Our Bankers Too Clever for Their Own Good? - David Wessel

August 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/David_Wessel_Meet_Paul_Keating Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel explains the current financial crisis as the product of too clever minds, too much money, and very little accountability. "The brightest of our youth were lured to financ...

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- -: Being a Woman In the Tech Industry - Esther Dyson

October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/biztechday_ny_2010 Angel investor Esther Dyson comments on TechCrunch senior editor Michael Arrington's recent article entitled, "Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Blaming the Men." Dyson acknowledges both benefits and drawbacks to being a woman in ...

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- -: 'Inside Job' Director Ferguson's Proposal to Reform Wall Street

June 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/02/Inside_Job_Charles_Ferguson Charles Ferguson, director of "Inside Job," proposes a strategy to reform the compensation structure of top players in the financial services industry. He explains that rather than capping the salaries of top executives, he...

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- -: President Obama Proposes Federal Employee Pay Freeze

November 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

President Obama announces his intention to seek a two-year pay freeze for civilian Federal employees, a measure that would provide $28 billion in cumulative savings over the next five years. November 29, 2010.

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Margaret Thatcher: Speech to Conservative Party Conference 1982

October 8, 1982 (over 41 years ago)

UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tackles issues on inflation, unemployemnt and health care in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference of 1982.

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