Credit Crunch Video

Dennis Kucinich says bailout plan is “the dumbest thing he’s ever seen.”

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Added yesterday

MARTHA: So what do we do now? What are you going to do now to try to fight to make sure that this program works as best as humanly possible? DENNIS: Hah! Well, you know, that’s a big order. I mean, you’ve got the Treasury Secretary, basically, who’s going to pick winners and losers. From a capita...

economy, video, bail out, ben bernake, credit crunch, dennis kucinich, george bush, henry paulson

Couch Potato Pickings - The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

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Added yesterday

On Hallmark this afternoon at 3pm Since financial disasters are a hot topic at the moment, I feel the need to educate myself about the first major financial disaster to occur this decade. US energy company Enron fell on its knees in 2001 following some irregular accounting procedures conducted th...

couch potato, films on tv, bankruptcy, brian cruver, credit crunch, energy, financial disaster, hallmark, shareholders, the crooked e: the unshredded truth about enron

Clay Shirky on how algorithms caused the credit crunch

Collected by davidcushman

Added October 01, 2008

I had the great good fortune to meet and interview Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody) yesterday at Incisive Media in London. He was in town for the AOP conference among other keynotes - and meetings with Government Ministers, no less. So to get a one-to-one for any length of time was ...

video, incisive media, group forming network theory, credit crunch, reeds law, here comes everybody, clay shirky, human

U.S. urges global action on credit crisis

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Added September 27, 2008

U.S. officials called for a “forceful and coordinated” global response to the credit crisis on Monday as financial market confidence cratered despite another heavy dose of central bank lending. Full story: http://tinyurl.com/4seq7a Markets routed in global sell-off Stock prices collapsed around ...

blogroll, barrons, blog, business news, business report, citi merger, doctors, financial news, goldman merger, goldman sachs

Ah Mater!

Collected by bigrab

Added September 28, 2008

If the rumours are true the UK government will step in tomorrow morning, before financial markets open, to nationalise the Bradford and Bingley Building Society Bank. In 2006 B&B’s share price was 536p. On Friday at one point it was 18p before finishing the day at 20p. The credit crunch continues...

money and finance, bradford and bingley, credit crunch, paul mccartney and wings, royal family