PBS Commanding Heights Ep1 The Battle of Ideas DivX1

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy confronts head-on Americans' critical concerns about the new interconnected world. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, this groundbreaking series explores our changing world—the great debate over globalization and the future of our society.

Commanding Heights reunites the team that created The Prize— award-winning producer William Cran (From Jesus to Christ) and Daniel Yergin—and is the first in-depth documentary to tell the inside story of our new global economy and what it means for individuals around the world. Filmed on five continents, the powerful narrative combines stunning film footage with dramatic stories and extraordinary interviews with world leaders and thinkers from twenty different countries, including: Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Singapores Lee Kuan Yew, former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and President George W. Bush's Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey.

Commanding Heights dramatically captures the issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and shows how the battle over the world economy will shape our lives in the twenty-first century. http://www.kremsoft.com

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[zdrux]

@twosquirrelly I've heard of the great depression, thanks. And I'm sure it had nothing to do with the easy-money and inflationary policies of the 20's before it.. no sir?

Price controls - CHECK

Wage controls - CHECK

Gold confiscation - CHECK

Buying farmers' wheat and then BURNING IT to raise prices - CHECK

...these all look like government fuck ups to me, nothing to do with banks. Everything the government touches turns to shit sooner of later.

google - bailouts

google - tarp

[twosquirrelly]

@zdrux Again...derivatives are UN-regulated...these sociopaths have racked up 600 trillion, the entire economy of the globe is only worth 60 trillion, so there isn't enough money in the solar system to bail them out.

We tried the un-reg finance thing, it led to the 1929 crash, no one bailed them out and innocent grandmas lost their life savings were thrown out of their houses, 28% unemployment, in Germany it led to the rise of Hitler.

google - great depression

[zdrux]

@twosquirrelly Again... I'd run all the derivatives I could if I knew I'd get a bailout. Who wouldn't?! Regulation doesn't mean anything when there is no way you can go out of business. That's like giving a drug addict unlimited drugs while he knows he can't overdose, and at the same time asking him to stop taking drugs, and then gasp in disbelief as he continues drugging.

This is not a problem with banks per se, it's a problem of gov't. Banks didnt take your money, the gov did.

[twosquirrelly]

@zdrux -1. Reinstate Glass-Steagall 2. Hire democrats who actually want to follow the law instead of ignore it. That worked for 67 years.

google - Derivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode

thats10 times the worlds GDP - Derivatives are unregulated fyi

[zdrux]

@twosquirrelly There's tons of regulation in the financials, so how is it doing? Don't look like the regulations are doing much, just have a look at MF Global. There's already regulations against theft, so how come they stole clients' money?! What are you gonna do next, have the government create a regulation that says you have to follow regulations?

You have to stop gov't bailouts, and let financials fail, its easy to cheat and rob when you know you can't go out of business.

[twosquirrelly]

Haha

Watch this....and then watch - Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room.

You'll see what free market deregulation gets you.

/watch?v=_xIO731MAO4&feature=p­layer_embedded

[Lillymill]

@lorax2013

You mean freedom for fat cats, robber barons and tycoons - a rich man's socialism...

[LogicalFlawDetector]

@Jshect

The trial hasn't even started, faggot.

[SgtGod]

@lorax2013 How does PBS produce mainstream propoganda? Pity you didn't hang in there for all 3 hours of this event, it was rather informative.

[lorax2013]

More mainstream propaganda meant to perpetuate the myth of a battle between socialism and capitalism. There are free forms of both systems. The real battle is between a banking oligarchy (which Keynes' theories serve) and freedom.