The Bailout Rap

[JDPatriot]

This is still amazing.

[funfrock25]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet



[funfrock25]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

[machhone]

check urself for ur wreck urself.....yeah

[gaijin134]

Fun AND educational.

[bulbheadmyass]

This is an awesome song, I love the lyrics. This is going right into my Economic humor playlist. A million stars.

[MrMickenval]

"It is hilarious to see so many Americans completely lost about basic facts about their economy "

It´s NOT hilarious. it´s scary, it´s shit! -how Americans has completely let their bankers to destroy the countrys possibilities in further success in the global economy.

US was great in 80´s, became

suspicious in 90´s, and now after all bailouts, all stimulus packets out from the air with virtual money and bankers still yelling after bonus...

US is a total bluff! how get we rid off them?

[Topikatintalo]

Reading comments on this video is both hilarious and scary. It is hilarious to see so many Americans completely lost about basic facts about their economy and its realistic possibilities and options. Get this: Free Market is a Myth. It's scary because there remains possibility that lunatics (I mean guys like Ron Paul and his followers) really start running the place with help of their right-wing christian and neo-con political allies. The mess that this would create globally is less hilarious.

[wannabe023]

THIS IS PIS WATER FUCK LOSER btw i loved it

[holmesc21]

Nice!

[lucasleonamlopes]

Good!

[yuurepoer]

lol its because ppl payed for there stuff with money that didnt even excist :P

[zdelgolfo]

sum people suck n are so fucckin wierd!!!!!!!!

[Scoforever]

Regulation caused this crisis. TOO MUCH REGULATION!

[americangreedvictim]

Bull poopoo. It was lack of regulation. Check the facts.

[Scoforever]

Or what your told by the media. Look for Community Reinvestment Act or very low interest rates by the Fed. Search for Ron Paul and Peter Schiff. Do your own research. Don't just watch CNN.

[perkcolater]

Sorry you're wrong Scoforever.

The regulators; the FED, the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ALL failed to do their jobs as well as Congress failing to regulate Fannie and Freddie. So in reality there was no regulation.

Also there was little or no regulation of Credit Default Swaps and other derivatives which trade OTC and is really what caused the financial meltdown last Fall.

[ThePirateEconomist]

Yar, ye be wrong. Bailouts be regulation in of themselves. Here be some economic theory for ye:

Corporatism: Regulation to help Big Bussinesses

Socialism: Regulation to help the poor. In practice, due to political greed, it turns fast into Corporatism.

Free Market: No Regulation.

Yar, and yer "Failed Regulation" argument just goes to show that Regulation FAILS! Why ye be wantin' to impliment more of a failing system?

[perkcolater]

Read my post more carefully as I never argued that "regulation failed". I said the REGULATORS "failed to do their jobs". There was also no regulation of CDS which when they blew up contributed significantly to the financial crisis.

I just want regulators to do the job they're being paid to do and for CDS to be traded on a regulated exchange so the pricing is open and transparent.

BTW, Free markets need rules & laws, i.e. regulation, otherwise criminals will eventually destroy the market.

[ThePirateEconomist]

@perkcolater

Yahar! I haven't been sailin' the YouTube for a while, so forgive the lateness of this reply.

Anyway, ye make a good point. The Regulators failed. That thar be a reoccurring theme throughout Regulation. With the more recent regulator failures on the high seas, with the oil spill in the Gulf, we see once again, regulators failing. They be taken bribes from big oil, and turnin' away relief vessels!

Regulation is made up of Regulators. And regulators be failin!

[ThePirateEconomist]

@perkcolater

Continuing: If the Regulators be always failin due to corruption, greed, and incompetence, I'd be sayin that Regulation itself fails.

[TheDcrat]

Regulation would have stopped this. CDS's caused this. If we had regulated, we wouldn't have had those

[MONOPOLY35]

@TheDcrat How about regulating the banks by letting them fail and warning them that failure is possible?

[TheDcrat]

@MONOPOLY35 that would cause a depression.

[MONOPOLY35]

@TheDcrat Would it be good for our nation to experience a depression? Theoretically, that could fix the imbalances, put the people's prioirities back in order, force the US to solve their problems now, and encourage the free market to fix things without government intervention (Yes, I support the free market). Finally, our nation would not have doubled the money supply if we had let the banks fail. Of course, this is a complicated issue!

[ExposeZionistCrimes]

@Scoforever The Byzantine regulations against potentially destructive persons holding powerful positions would have prevented it also

[borriskarlof]

@Scoforever You are clueless! LMAO!

[rebelstang]

GET"R"DONE!

[ampiet3]

I hope the banking industry collapses along with all of our bank accounts. Then the economy will official collapse. Oops I forgot, it already has. You realize that if you do not bail out banking and insurance that there is no backbone for an economy. Failing to do so would be catastrophic. Sure they are assholes but I would rather that, then losing all my money.

[DoomHippie]

You are under the impression that if a company goes bankrupt, it simply disappears! This is not true. An economy is like an environment, if there is a niche to fill, someone will move to fill it! In most cases, they will be replaced with BETTER bussinessmen! These "Bailouts" are just letting the rich pricks who inherited their bussinesses, and know NOTHING about bussiness, keep their money!

Screw the Rich!

Screw this Socialism!

Demand a Free Market!

iVIVA EL MERCANDO LIBRE!

[DoomHippie]

The next song can be the Stimulus Rap!

[4tomhenry]

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[wilsonpwt]

Some of the appropriated funds will be used to appropriate more funds from the average citizen. Besides taxes. fines and fees will greatly increase and this is already happening. Paul Turner

Oh, and you can count on the disinformation movement getting stronger, they now have the funds to do so...

[kevinmkeating]

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[nineninefour]

I went and saw that video, and it's fuckin awful. Stop spamming that wannabe gangster garbage.

[kevinmkeating]

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[DoomHippie]

Frickin' Awesome.

[4tomhenry]

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Enjoy and keep passing all of us at YouTube around!

[mittenola]

Excellent!!!

[spookytom]

tell it!

[ce5v]

Excellent.

Just one thing, you state 'Sub Prime Blues', is that how you think it all started?

LOL, step outside of the box son.

Try looking off WHY just before bushes end of term in office as president he decided to mess around with FED Rates and keep messing about with opec's input and output of oil?????

Strange that he comes from Texas and has lots of oil stocks/companies.

No wonder sub primers failed with such HIGH oil prices.

Get it right first son.

[sukkee3x]

it has started from the very existence of Federal Reserve..

check out "Money as Debt" in this youtube..

plus malicious derivative CDS "heaven"

[bander87]

Awesome!

[Re3volution]

Make More!!!

[ssalavei]

Really cool!

[Ledoux202]

Love it

[shakemyass9878]

Brilliant!! Wakeup America!

[limpiduniverse]

awesome!

[stupidjunk978]

Weak chorus, though

[minnesotachris]

Genius :-)

[kanyeiam]

I would put it on itunes but I have no idea how. do you know?

[mutulus]

use the tech crunch tool to download it and then you can just download a converter maybe?

[sayntfuu]

woot woot

[jfooj]

Excellent!

[semiliteratedgod]

cool song

[dudess4rent]

put it up for itunes!

[uriahsw]

Possibly the best rap I've heard ever. Informational, and worthwhile. Well done!

[Michaelwiseguy]

The faster they bankrupt us the sooner we can get it over with.

[greennvidian]

That is brilliant!!!!!!

[JesseKantstopolis]

Banking cartels that engage in fractional reserve banking which are saved by the government when they inevitably fail, is not a characteristic of free market capitalism, it is a characteristic of socialism. Fractional Reserve banking always self destructs and could not exist in a free market. The federal reserve banking cartel and the government created this crisis, not the non-existent free market.

[ftorresgamez]

"The federal reserve banking cartel and the government created this crisis, not the non-existent Free Market. " Exactly!

End the government mandated cartels! Free the banking system, get rid of the FED. "The States are forbidden to coin any money except gold or silver".

[nelsonrn]

Great stuff! We need more folk songs about classic liberal positions. Well done, Gregg!

[FiveInstincts]

Big thumbs up... thx for the laugh!

[sbelect2us]

this is brilliant. every student in america should watch this

[DebtJunkie]

Hot stuff....

[bloomyd72]

sick song

[mystonyvsnrlty]

very well done =D

[RodneyHampton]

Awesome.  Thanks for sharing this.

[hanxor]

This is amazing! God i love your videos. I've been doing on going research on everything you rhymed about in the video! AMAZING keep them coming, young econ students need something better than NPR for their news updates. haha

[suburbanmonk]

good point....good eye

[omen619]

well, the market see that the dollar will gain value because we will end the fake wars and stop throwing to wall street. I also see that oil companies are shaking in their 100,000 dollar boots.

[Buddy1205]

Catchy and effective

[OldBenFranklin]

And has anyone noticed, the price of gas is dropping all over the U.S. In some areas it's down to $2.99 per gallon.

So, there is a connection between gas prices and the bailout!!!

No bailout and gas prices drop!!!

No wonder GWBush is in a panic for a bailout, it means lost profits for him, Dickless Cheney and the rest of the bums living off of us, if they can't get the bailout!

Blocking the bailout is exposing the greedy schemes of the lying bums in Washington!

[suburbanmonk]

good point god eye

[TKEryan21]

gas will go up for many reasons...1) Russia's economy is struggling worse than ours, oil is their biggest export, prices will go up 2) Lack of drilling in the US = supply decrease + demand increase = higher prices 3) With this bailout the value of the $ will decrease because there is nothing backing it, in other words the govt is just printing money, didnt work during the great depression & it won't work now, oil is linked to the value of the $, so when it goes down, oil goes up...hurray govt!!!