http://rushkoff.com/videoaudio/richard-metzger/ Opening subject: Counterculture and Financial meltdown Guest: Richard Metzger
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This American Life - Bad Bank
The collapse of the banking system explained, in just 59 minutes. Our crack economics team—the guys who explained the mortgage crisis, Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Adam Davidson—are back to help all of us understand the news. For instance, when we talk about an insolvent bank, what does it actually mean, and why are we giving hundreds of billions of dollars to rich bankers who screwed up their own businesses? Also, two guys go to New Jersey to look at a toxic asset.
Other shows on the financial crisis: Giant Pool of Money and Another Frightening Show About the Economy. And you can get daily updates about the financial crisis on Alex and Adam’s Planet Money podcast and blog.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Rating the Credit Ratings Agencies from Documentaries
Who’s responsible for our current economic meltdown? Financial institutions around the globe are now sitting on mega losses – they hold assets worth a fraction of what they paid for them. But one set of organizations – credit rating agencies - gave these institutions false confidence to buy these assets. So are the Credit Rating Agencies the real villains?
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Building Bridges: Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty with Jeffrey Sachs , Segment 1
Prof. Sachs, author of the new book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet talks about how to address the fact that one-sixth of the world remains trapped in extreme poverty, now made much worse by the global financial meltdown.
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Niall Ferguson - The New World of Finance
Financial historian Niall Ferguson knows humanity’s long trail of boom and bust cycles. But he is hardly buried in the past.
In the long run-up to today’s crisis, Ferguson was warning loud and clear that we were headed for trouble. He called it early, and he called it right.
Now, Ferguson is sizing up the mess we’re in. Bottom line guess, he says: we’re headed for ten percent unemployment and five-plus years of hard times.
On the other side, the world could look quite different. But the U.S., he says, still has some good cards to play. Saving graces.
This hour, On Point: Niall Ferguson, and the big view of the mess we’re in.
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/11/the-new-world-of-finance/