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.