Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Warning — Part 6: Late 2008 - Born's nightmare comes true

Part 6: Late 2008 - Born's nightmare comes true

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:06 AM

The Warning — Part 5: 1998 - Born's warning becomes a prophecy

Part 5: 1998 - Born's warning becomes a prophecy

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:05 AM

The Warning — Part 4: The Earthquake

Part 4: The Earthquake

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:04 AM

The Warning — Part 3: Get this lady off our backs

Part 3: Get this lady off our backs

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:03 AM

The Warning — Part 2: Brooksley Born arrives on the scene

Part 2: Brooksley Born arrives on the scene

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:02 AM

The Warning — Part 1: The Go-Go '90s

Part 1: The Go-Go '90s

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

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Aired: 10/20/2009 12:01 AM

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Prof Michael Hudson talks about Icelandic debt

Prof Michael Hudson talks about Icelandic debt

Professor Michael Hudson interviewed on Icelandic talk show Silfur Egils.

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Aired: 4/5/09 12:00 AM

John Perkins talks about Icelandic debt

John Perkins talks about Icelandic debt

John Perkinsn interviewed on Icelandic talk show Silfur Egils.

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Aired: 4/5/09 12:00 AM

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Part 6: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Greenback and National Dividend Solutions

Part 6: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Greenback and National Dividend Solutions

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

The U.S. should convert to a system where the money supply is created by the federal government by being spent into circulation without government borrowing or taxation as was done with the Greenbacks. The Federal Reserve should no longer be a bank of issue. Additionally, a National Dividend should be paid directly to the people. The “Cook Plan” calls for the initial distribution of vouchers in the amount of $1,000 a month plus a new system of community savings banks. Greenbacks combined with a National Dividend will create a non-inflationary democratic currency and transform the economy of the United States.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 5: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Gap Between Prices and Income

Part 5: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Gap Between Prices and Income

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

One of the most important and least understood concepts in modern economics is the existence of a gap between prices and purchasing power. This gap results when a portion of prices must be set aside as business and private savings. The money is then used by the financial system for lending and speculation. Keynesian economics takes control of some of the savings through government deficit spending but is still a compromise with control of the economy by the financiers. In fact Keynesian economics has helped cause the collapsing debt pyramid. A better system would be to provide consumers with a National Dividend as a way to monetize the continuous appreciation of the producing economy.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 4: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — What is Credit and Who Should Control It?

Part 4: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — What is Credit and Who Should Control It?

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

Fractional reserve banking is the process by which banks create credit out of thin air. But despite abuses of the system, credit is still a crucial part of modern economics. An enlightened concept of governance would view credit as a public utility. This means that government must take back the control of credit from the private financiers.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 3: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Collapse of the Financial System

Part 3: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Collapse of the Financial System

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

The collapse we are seeing today began in the financial system, not the producing economy. The crisis started with the housing bubble which the Federal Reserve created by cutting interest rates and then brought own by raising them. The trigger of the 2008 bank meltdown was refusal by European banks to purchase any more “toxic” U.S. debt based on mortgages and sold as securities. Now, with the decline in equity values, the burden of debt in our economy has grown even larger. Thus a renewal of bank lending will not solve the problem, while the economic stimulus program of the Obama administration is likewise insufficient to restore economic health.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 2: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Federal Reserve System: The Bankers Take Over

Part 2: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — The Federal Reserve System: The Bankers Take Over

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

President Lincoln’s Greenback system worked but was undermined and replaced by the financiers who got Congress to pass the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, then the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The United States now became a nation dominated by the financial elite, the banks, and a debt-based monetary system. Consequently, the 20th Century was one of constant cycles of inflation and deflation resulting in the economic chaos we see today.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Part 1: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests

Part 1: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

Early U.S. statesmen, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson worked to free the nation from control by the bankers who had been behind the establishment of the First and Second Banks of the United States. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln implemented a true democratic currency by spending Greenbacks directly into circulation without borrowing from the banks. These measures allowed the U.S. to develop for much of the 19th century largely free from bankers’ control. By the end of the century, this had changed, and the bankers were taking over.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Money as Debt II — Promises Unleased

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt, where will it all end?

How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers?

And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt!

Money as Debt II Explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT...and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era.

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Aired: 2009