Wall Street Videos

The stock market ended a down week with light selling as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt.(Nov. 20)

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former managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. and commissioner to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, Catherine Austin Fitts. http://solari.com/ http://prisonplanet.tv/

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The word "Change" has been used so much lately that it often seems almost meaningless. What's change really? Is it having Barack Obama in the White House, talking about withdrawing from Iraq, a stimulus bill that spends some federal dollars on infrastructure? David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism , and Alexander Cockburn, author of End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate, don't think small when it comes to change. They aren't afraid to think about significant, even radical changes to the social order we've grown so used to, whether it's requiring full employment, reimagining urban living, or repudiating credit card debt and abolishing Wall Street speculation. Cockburn and Harvey joined Laura for an event at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture & Politics, and we bring you part of that discussion today.

An unexpected drop in home construction and disappointing forecasts from tech companies added to worries about the economic recovery.(Nov. 18)

Mortgage rating agencies Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch were responsible for rating nearly all the investments that went bad, causing last year's financial collapse. Securities from AIG and Lehman Brothers were rated double and triple A--the highest ratings possible--right before the bottom fell out. Though the Bush administration and many other insiders claimed that no one could've seen the collapse coming, construction workers, whose own pension funds were invested in these companies, knew that there was a housing bubble and feared for their own retirement money. This video from the Huffington Post Investigative Fund takes a look at the rating agencies and their future.

This week the Krewe has sadistic fun watching the stock market tank only to have it interrupted by a constant feed of BREAKING NEWS! Then there's this issue of the elections. Gawd how we love us some politics!