Monday, January 19, 2009

The Global Financial Crisis

An insightful video connecting the blank check bank bailout with corporate power, self-governance, and other issues...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5524526231174165759&ei=3c9zSdaJDZPiqQLwjIS7BQ&q=Michel+Chossudovsky+THE+FINANCIAL+CRISIS
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
The Great Depression of the 21st Century
with Michel Chossudovsky

Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown;
The speculative onslaught;
Financial fraud and the "bank bailouts";
Bankruptcy of the real economy;
Impacts on employment, wages and social services;
Towards a spiralling public debt;
The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war;
The centralization of corporate power;
The concentration of wealth;
The globalization of poverty.
What are the policy alternatives

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