The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: Bill Moyers Interviews William K. Black

In this interview, Bill Moyers talks with William K. Black, author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One,” and has him explain how the fraud began in the board rooms and CEO offices of the most elite institutions in the US and how our government is complicit in covering it up. A must watch, in my [...]

Economic Crisis in Video: Aspects of the Current Moment

These videos capture particular pulses of this economic crisis, from one real face of homelessness, to a Great Depression cooking class, to a hilarious bit from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show about why we should think twice, or a billion times, before listening to CNBC’s financial [...]

Fed Refuses to Disclose Identity of Recipients of $2 Trillion in Loans

via Bloomberg.com:
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Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. [snip]

Bloomberg News has requested details of the Fed lending under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and filed a federal [...]

Congress threatened with Martial Law if they voted NO on bailout

Fear-mongering doesn’t get any more obvious than this. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA, Sherman Oaks, Northridge) despite intense pressure, stood up in the House and told the world that members of Congress had been threatened by the White House with Martial Law if they voted NO on the bailout bill. Martial Law. It seems my reference to [...]