1 Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation
2 The Men Who Crashed the World
3 Ken Burns's Prohibition
4 The NYPD Pepper Spray Incident

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Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation

Elizabeth Warren on the debt crisis and fair taxation.
To support her Massachusetts Senate Campaign, visit
http://www.ElizabethWarren.com. Uploaded by
LiveSmartVideos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htX2usfqMEs
September 18, 2011
2:06

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The Men Who Crashed the World

In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men
who brought down the global economy: a billionaire
mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling
banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street
predator; and the power behind the throne.

The crash of September 2008 brought the largest
bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30
million people into unemployment and bringing many
countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned
back the clock to 1929.

But how did it all go so wrong?

Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US
housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home
loan with no government regulations in place.

Also, London was competing with New York as the banking
capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance
minister at the time, introduced 'light touch
regulation' - giving bankers a free hand in the
marketplace.

All this, and with key players making the wrong
financial decisions, saw the world's biggest financial
collapse.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/meltdown/2011/09/2011914105518615434.html
September 21, 2011
42:30


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Ken Burns's Prohibition

[Part 1 shows this Sunday on PBS. Check local listings
-- video moderator] Coming this fall to PBS --
PROHIBITION, the upcoming film from Ken Burns and Lynn
Novick, explores the rise and fall of the Eighteenth
Amendment. Uploaded by PBS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdKK6L8Z2o
Mar 30, 2011
3:02

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The NYPD Pepper Spray Incident

New video came out today of the police officer who
pepper-sprayed Occupy Wall Street protesters without any
provocation. Lawrence O'Donnell reports.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44710536#44710536
September 28, 2011
8:48

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