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Ron Paul on Global Economic Summit

Saturday, November 15, 2008 | 11:02 AM

The Congressman discusses the G-20 summit taking place in Washington this weekend that will address the global monetary system.

Today's Five Favorite Videos

Friday, November 07, 2008 | 02:00 AM

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Today's Video:

The Onion on Obama’s Obsessive Supporters

Trichet: ECB Rate Cuts `Substantial,’ More Possible

Rough Road Ahead for Retailers

Are Stocks Cheap?

Paul Disses the Triple Leverage ETF

Today's Video

Thursday, November 06, 2008 | 02:30 AM

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Our five favorites:

Forbes: Volcker Should Be Next Treasury Secretary

Peter Schiff On Squawk Box

France: ‘Best’ Health Care?

President-Elect Obama: ‘Change Has Come to America’

Calomiris: Obama Needs to Reassure Markets

Today's Video

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 | 12:15 AM

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Here are the latest videos posted:

Jim Rogers: Markets Have ‘A Lot Further to Fall’

Betting On the U.S. Election

Dallas Fed Pres Richard Fisher: Economy May Slump Through 2009

Santoli: Stocks Outlook for November

60 Minutes: McCain and Obama

Today in Video

Monday, November 03, 2008 | 02:00 AM

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Here are the latest videos posted:

60 Minutes: McCain and Obama on the Economic Crisis

Paul Volcker on Charlie Rose

Calomiris: U.S. Rescue Plan Should Aid Homeowners

Bush’s Push For Deregulation

Roubini: More Trouble Coming for S&P

Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Behold…The Decabox!

More...

The Oil of the Future

Did You Know? 2.0

Whassup !

Juan Enriquez at Pop!Tech: Debt Crisis and the Future

President Bush and Home Ownership

Ben Bernanke, Please Send Me Some Green!

Videos

Saturday, November 01, 2008 | 08:30 PM

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Be sure to kick around the Video page a bit. We've dug up some fantastic videos across a variety of market and technology related subjects.

Very, very cool stuff.

I am going to set up a way for readers to suggest videos...

Did You Know? 2.0

Saturday, November 01, 2008 | 03:00 AM

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Fascinating set of data points:

Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age
(Version .0)

Techno Version (right here, right now)

Sources:
Did You Know? 2.0
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2007
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html

Did You Know?
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html

President Bush and Home Ownership

Friday, October 31, 2008 | 08:00 AM

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There was an editorial in IBD this week, mistitled, Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened. Funny thing is, they somehow overlooked these speeches below.

The pandering and disinformation campaign of the far right are looking more and more like the death spasms of an intellectually bankrupt ideology . . . (comments are here)

A Home of Your Own, by President Bush, May 17, 2002

President Bush 2002 Speech Encouraging More Lending Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac

President Bush Discusses Homeownership Financing August 31 2007

(comments are here)

Sources:
Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened
M. JAY WELLS
10/29/2008
http://www.investors.com/editorial/EditorialContent.asp?secid=1502&status=article&id=310173877357981

Levitt: Derivatives Necessary, Should Be Regulated

Friday, October 31, 2008 | 03:30 AM

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Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt talks about the importance of credit derivatives to the financial markets and the need for regulation and transparency, and the outlook for executive compensation at financial firms. Levitt is a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group and a board member of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=Levitt%20Says%20Derivatives%20Necessary%2C%20Should%20Be%20Regulated&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vhbslNoBG_nI.asf

00:00 Credit derivatives' importance, transparency
01:26 Growth of derivatives market, new regulation
02:11 "Some moderation" in executive compensation

Running time 03:48

Source:
Levitt Says Derivatives Necessary, Should Be Regulated: Video
Bloomberg, Last Updated: October 29, 2008 09:23 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=azMrpQyorJFs

PBS Video: Taleb & Mandelbrot

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | 12:30 AM

in Markets | Mathematics | Quantitative | Video

Economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his mentor, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, speak with Paul Solman about chain reactions and predicting the financial crisis.

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Excerpt:

RAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight, we return to a subject on many minds these days: the financial crisis. Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, checked back in with one particularly prominent voice in the investment world and his colleague, who guided his thinking.

Here is the pair's sobering conversation on what may lie ahead.

PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent: One of the world's hottest investment advisers these days, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "The Black Swan," who's been warning of a crash for years, betting on one, and winning big.

He's been ubiquitous in the financial media of late, from cable TV's "Colbert Report" to the BBC's "Newsnight," where he was infuriated by what he called "bogus accounting."

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, Scholar and Author: The first thing I would get immediately, immediately, I would suspend something called value at risk, quantitative measures of risk used by banks, immediately.

PAUL SOLMAN: We sat down with Taleb and the man he calls his mentor, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, pioneer of fractal geometry and chaos theory. And even more than feeling vindicated, they're both scared.

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB: I don't know if we're entering the most difficult period since -- not since the Great Depression, since the American Revolution.

PAUL SOLMAN: The most serious situation we've been in since the American Revolution?

Source:
Top Theorists Examine Rippling Economic Turbulence
PBS, October 21, 2008
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/psolman_10-21.html