Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

A new documentary on the causes and consequences of the US financial crisis has been making waves. “Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis” was produced by a team of filmmakers led by prominent Swedish libertarians Jonah Norberg and Martin Borgs.

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Renaissance 2.0: Lessons to Enlighten, recover our humanity, and break the monolithic monetary monopoly that controls everything in the United States

An awesome, fascinating and educational series created by Damon Vrabel – Founder of http://csper.org

Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History – Financial Empire

Lesson 2 – Revisiting Economics 101 – Debt

Lesson 3: Revisiting Civics 101 – Ownership

Lesson 4 (part 1 of 4) – The Culture of Empire

Lesson 4 (part 2 of 4) – The Culture of Empire

Lesson 4 (part 3 of 4) – The Culture of Empire

Lesson 4 (part 4 of 4) – The Culture of Empire

Lesson 5 (part 1 of 2) – The Emerging Global Empire

Lesson 5 (part 2 of 2) – The Emerging Global Empire

Lesson 6 (part 1 of 3) – Brightening the Future

Lesson 6 (part 2 of 3) – Brightening the Future

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Frontline “The Warning”: How derivatives reform was killed in the late 90s

There is a lot of buzz about the derivative’s reform legislation in Congress right now. A provision introduced by Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas would force the giant Wall Street banks to give up their lucrative derivative trading businesses. But about 12 years ago, Brooksley Born head of the CFTC at that time trried doing something similar. To see how that unfolded watch this fascinating documentary.

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.
You can also watch this on PBS’s website at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/

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How countries have developed over the past 200 years.

In this Gapminder video, Hans Rosling shows you how all the countries of the world have developed since 1809 – 200 years ago.

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Elizabeth Warren – The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke

This program originally aired in April 2004. it is being re-aired because Professor Warren’s predictions of economic disasters and the reasons for them have proven

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Nouriel Roubini: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

In Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, Nouriel Roubini – renowned economist and professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business – reveals the methods he used to foretell the current financial crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.

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Burton Malkiel’s timeless lessons for investors

This is an hour long video but has some great ideas on how to be financially fit.

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