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Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy – provided by theRealNews.com; Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces
Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy – provided by theRealNews.com; Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces
Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy — provided by TheRealNews.com; Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces
Why Save the Euro? – provided by TheRealNews.com; Mark Weisbrot, American economist, columnist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C, explains how the Euro is flawed and how the European Union will survive, with or without it.
Roundtable on Sustainable Development – provided by TheRealNews.com; At the Bretton Woods, INET conference, hundreds of economists gathered to come up with new economic thinking, trying to find a way out of the economic crisis while asking just how much growth can the planet sustain? Speakers include John Fullerton, founder and president of Capital Institute, a think tank working on these questions; William Rees, professor and ecologist at the University of British Columbia; Peter Brown, professor at the School of Environment at McGill University, and Juliette Shor, economist and sociologist at Boston College.
Money As Debt III — provided by Paul Grignon; preview for “Evolution Beyond Money”, a video which illustrates in extensive and entertaining detail how a fundamental change in our long-held concept of money, paired with recent breakthroughs in technology, opens the door to a liberated, self-balancing global “money” backed by Real Value and Open to All.
Speculation and Frenzy in Food Markets — provided by TheRealNews.com; Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at JNU university in New Delhi and executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates, and Robert Pollin, professor of economics and codirector of the Political Economic Research Institute, PERI, discuss an avoidable crisis.
Money – Jane D’Arista — provided by The Real News Network; Quantitative Easing, TARP and more! Interview with Jane D’Arista, of the Political Economy Research Institute. Begins at the 2:45 mark.
Emerging Measures of Qualitative Growth — provided by Sustainable Brands 2010; Hazel Henderson re-defines the metrics by which nations measure success beyond GDP
Analysis of Adam Smith Economics to modern day part 2 – provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin of M-CAM and the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration moves on to discuss other economic theories, such as Keynesian, applied to the 21st century.
Analysis of Adam Smith Economics to modern day part 1 – provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin of M-CAM and the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
2012: The Day After part 2 — provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin explains what evolving markets will look like in a world that is not bound by scarcity.
2012: The Day After part 1 — provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin explains what evolving markets will look like in a world that is not bound by scarcity.
Nassim Taleb on May 6 Wall Street Selloff—provided by Bloomberg; Nassim Taleb, NYU professor and author of “The Black Swan” talks with Bloomberg about the May 6 stock market selloff and the drivers for the financial crisis, the U.S. economy and the performance of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Ellen Brown – Financial meltdown: Why it happened, How it can be reversed provided by Democracy for America; Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, explains the roots of the current economic crisis and a way out. Brown’s articles are regularly posted at www.ethicalmarkets.com. Her presentation begins about 11 1/2 minutes into the video. Worth the wait!
Monitoring the Impact of Crisis in Real Time provided by the United Nations; showcases the United Nations Secretary-General’s initiative on Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System to monitor the impact of crisis in real-time.
Government by Goldman Sachs, provided by Rolling Stone; reporter Matt Taibbi explains how deeply influential the banking industry is and has been with Congress and every administration since the 1990s, democrats and republicans alike.
Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson provided by renegadeeconomist.com/video; The Renegade Economist goes to New York to hear Dr. Michael Hudson’s views on the state of the US Economy.
Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman: Reflection on a Crisis provided by Fora.tv; Nassim Taleb and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman discuss the economic crisis of 2008-2009 in terms of economists’ unfounded expectations.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on economists from YouTube; Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of New York Times best seller Black Swan, explains what of economists’ reasoning is mistaken and counter productive.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Financial Crisis & Global Development provided by MaximsNews Network, Feb. 2009; Nobel Laureate Stiglitz, speaking at the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, characterizes the global crisis as having a “made in the USA label” and states that the US exported its deregulatory philosophy, its “toxic mortgages” and, now, the recession.
BerkShares Local Currency on BBC provided by the E.F. Schumacher Society and the BBC; BerkShares local currency supports the community, economy, ecology, and sustainability of the southern Berkshire region of Massachusetts. Launched by the E. F. Schumacher Society, BerkShares create consumer awareness about the consequences of spending practices, supports local businesses, facilitates the development of import replacing industries, and serves as a model for other regions.
US Dollar as World Reserve Currency in Jeopardy provided by Reuters; Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of a UN panel of experts, told the Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the panel may recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, adding to pressure on the dollar. The proposal is to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket.
James Robertson – It’s Our Money Anyway provided by The Renegade Economist; James Robertson talks frankly about democratising our money supply. Money as debt is not sustainable. www.renegadeeconomist.com
Michael Hudson with the Renegade Economist provided by The Renegade Economist; The Renegade Economist caught up with former Wall Street consultant Dr. Michael Hudson. He talks explicitly about the solutions, which would rescue the global economy and create a sustainable financial system. www.renegadeeconomist.com’
Reforming Global Finance -Videos showing solutions to the global economic crisis that break from the old paradigms and offer a different relationship to money, banking, debt, currency and our measure of wealth.