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Showing videos filed under: Lehman Brothers
The F Word: CA Banks: Who Are They Working For?
March 31, 2010Does it seem right to you that a state's ability to stay afloat should be the stuff of secretive betting pools? No? Well that's just what's going on.Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media, and Green Jobs
March 31, 2010This Monday, suicide bombings rocked two stations in the Moscow Metro, killing 39 people. This is only the latest in a series of attacks on Russian civilians, stemming from the conflict over the Russian occupation of Chechnya.The F Word: Credit Where Due, Geithner
March 16, 2010We talked about the economy today, and whether Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner deserves more credit. What he should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.Max Blumenthal, Remaking Geithner and Checkpoints
March 15, 2010Welcome to GRITtv's new format! We're coming to you from our new studio in SoHo, shooting higher resolution video. We'll be bringing you 30 minutes of content 5 days a week from now on, featuring more of our friends from around the country, more field reporting, and some other new surprises as well. Hope you enjoy!Risk Analysts Risk Little Themselves
November 18, 2009Though 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.Changing the Jobs Debate, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Revisiting Maine
November 17, 2009The unemployment number officially hit double digits recently, though the actual truth is that it's been in double digits for a while. The Nation's John Nichols , author of Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy calls the unemployment crisis a "social, economic and political threat," writing of the growing sense of urgency within an administration facing a purported recovery that hasn't extended to everyday people. Economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy agrees, noting that unemployment is still a crisis for the families affected, who struggle to pay the bills and put food on the table.The F Word: Bailing out the Banks: When Government Intervention is OK
September 15, 2008Long ago, in the 1850s when cotton was king, those glorious labor-intensive days, Lehman Brothers established itself as brokers of the industry. The American south was one of the richest places in the world, and Lehman made a fortune. Lehman’s storied history became just that today: history, as one of Wall Street’s giants bit the dust -- the greatest bankruptcy in the history of the United States -- another casualty of
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