Debt & Deception published here, is a short, no frills booklet describing how the banking system has come to dominate the life of Joe Public and his democratic government. Written well before the current world banking collapse (but with an updated Foreword). it explains how the banks sowed the seeds of their own destruction and what we could have done to prevent it.
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Aired: 1/1/10 12:00 AM
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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
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
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
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
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
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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Source: PBS Frontline
Aired: 10/20/2009 12:01 AM
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
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
John Perkinsn interviewed on Icelandic talk show Silfur Egils.
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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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM
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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Source: Richard C. Cook Blog
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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Source: http://www.moneyasdebt.net/
Aired: 2009
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
Monday, June 11, 2007
Elizabeth Warren — The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net
Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America's credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class.
Elizabeth Warren's website is: http://www.law.harvard.edu/
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Aired: 6/11/07 12:00 AM
Elizabeth Warren's website is: http://www.law.harvard.edu/
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Aired: 6/11/07 12:00 AM
Monday, May 21, 2007
Elizabeth Warren — Conversations with History: Law, Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren for a discussion of the economic pressures confronting the two income middle class family as it struggles to pay mortgages, health care, and education costs. Professor Warren offers surprising answers to "Who goes bankrupt and why?" and explores the role of banks and credit card companies in tightening the squeeze on the average American family. The interface between politics and the law in addressing these problems is explored.
Elizabeth Warren's website is: http://www.law.harvard.edu/
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Aired: 5/21/07 12:00 AM
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
In Debt We Trust
In America's earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation.
IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."
While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences. IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.
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Source: http://www.newsdissector.com/
Aired: 4/24/07 12:00 AM
IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."
While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences. IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.
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Source: http://www.newsdissector.com/
Aired: 4/24/07 12:00 AM
Monday, January 1, 2007
FIAT EMPIRE — Why the Federal Reserve Violates the US Constitution
FIAT EMPIRE discuss the Fed in connection with long-term studies which indicate that the Federal Reserve System encourages war, destabilizes the economy, generates inflation (a hidden tax) and is the supreme instrument of unjust enrichment for a select group of insiders. Dr. Theodore Baehr (founder of MOVIEGUIDE® and Chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission) rounds out the discussion by addressing the relationship between the mainstream media, the Fed and the government. Often delving into why the mainstream media only broadcasts a narrow spectrum of issues, FIAT EMPIRE explains why new voices and third-party candidates are often marginalized, if not suppressed entirely from the public discourse.
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Source: http://www.fiatempire.org/
Aired: 2007
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