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41 Facts About The History Of Central Banks In The U.S. That Our Children Are No Longer Taught In School, The Economic Collapse Blog (Reporter), Nov 2010
- The Creature From Jekyll Island which G Edward Griffin wrote in 1994, identifying the Federal Reserve's secret origins, purposing a few rich to get richer, at the expense of continual war and continual inflation for everyone else, aided by a congress all too eager to yield their responsibility to them. He explains some of the code words such as "Bailout" and predicted their use (which is now upon us).
- "The Giant Pool Of Money" Below are links to the best individual episodes
- "The Giant Pool Of Money" series begins - Meltdown foreshadowed (355) May 2008(NPR)
Why would ANY institution make $500K mortgage loans to people with No Income and No Assets? Excellent intro to how the system works, or not, and the programs that collapsed a few months later.
- Meltdown and bailout? (365) Oct 2008 - "Another Frightening Show" and "The Day The Market Died" and "Out of the Hedge..."
This reminds me of the movie "Boiler Room", except here loans were aggregated, and then poor quality loans were mixed in
with good ones in order to keep the aggregate value high enough, for a while, to pass as AAA. Finally someone noticed the much higher default rates then one or two of the institutions abruptly
stopped buying them, sending the traders scrambling for cover, and the credit market crashing due to broken trust.
- Bad Bank (375) - Feb 2009 - The collapse of the banking system explained, in just 59 minutes. Our crack economics team—the guys who explained the mortgage crisis, Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Adam Davidson—are back to help all of us understand the news. For instance, when we talk about an insolvent bank, what does it actually mean, and why are we giving hundreds of billions of dollars to rich bankers who screwed up their own businesses?
- The Watchmen (382) - June 2009- Since Congress hasn't held 1930's-style hearings into the causes of the financial crisis, we stage one of our own. The subject? The regulators and watchdogs who were supposed to be overseeing the banks and the finance industry—to make sure things wouldn't blow up like they have. Clearly something went wrong. Today we pound a gavel and ask: where were the watchmen?
- Return To The Giant Pool Of Money (390)- Oct 2009 - In which we mark the anniversary of the economic collapse and the anniversary of Planet Money: recapping some of the original episode, The Giant Pool of Money, and finding out what's happened to all those guys in the year since.
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