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Boomerang — [VIDEO]

Panic of the Plutocrats.

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Occupy Wall Street = Civil Rights movement — [VIDEO]

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Michael Lewis: Wall Street’s fingerprints all over EU crisis — [VIDEO]

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Bill Still on state banks and monetary reform — [VIDEO]

Bill Still, 13 minutes into:

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Too Big To Fail — [VIDEO]

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Simon Johnson says that the 2008 banking crisis was “private-sector driven”. – [VIDEO]

Simon Johnson talks about the role of U.S. banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the financial crisis. Bloomberg TV.

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Michael Lewis on Imus – [VIDEO]

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Michael Lewis on CBS 60 Minutes: How the capitalism was almost destroyed by the capitalists in the fall of 2008 – [VIDEO]

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Crony capitalism at the heart of the financial system

“Simon Johnson, an economist at the prestigious Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, [] has been leading the argument against overmighty banking.” Simon Johnson @ Wikipedia Simon Johnson’s blog = The Baseline Scenario – PageRank 8/10 – Wow.

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Peter Schiff on gold — again

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