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Friday Movie Night - The Madoff Affair

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It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

 

This week's video is Frontline's The Madoff Affair. Be aghast at how people of the super elite wealthy class are just as stupid as regular folk. Be horrified on how rock star status trumps facts, evidence and anything based in reality. Were you aware Bernie Madoff was a NASDAQ chairman at one point?

 

 

Book Review - The Black Swan

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Taleb is an asshole. He would not be fun at parties, pointing out every single logic flaw one can possibly possess. Overlooking the lies and pride that make up so much social lubricant in specialized societies, such as quantitative analysis, is not something this guy is going to deal with. Say something stupid, he's not going to just smile and nod and be one of the boys. Seriously. But he's the type of asshole one wants around when dealing with the increasing prevalence of mathematical models used in structured finance.

Taleb hates the Gaussian.

Friday Movie Night - Slave Economics Edition

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It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

One of the things so often overlooked in America today is not too long ago, the ultimate productive labor unit was the enslaved one. Below is a documentary on China labor and two American slave history documentaries with a focus on slavery economics.

 

Santa's Workshop

 

Friday Movie Night - Bill Moyers Does Econ Edition

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It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Journalist Bill Moyers had done a series of interviews with economists, experts on the financial crisis and they are bombshells. Below are some of the must see interviews.

 

Simon Johnson & Michael Perino, Part I

Johnson, Perino

 

Friday Movie Night - Default Edition

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It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Tonight's focus is on consumer debt and predatory lending.

With the Obama administration talking about student loans and credit cards, I thought an ode to Americans for Fairness in Lending organization and related documentaries would be in order.

Here is the start of Default: The Student Loan Documentary and it appears they don't have enough money to finish the film.

Sunday Morning Comics - Tea Bagging Edition

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Cup O' Joe

 

Good Morning! Rise and Shine! Get that Cup O' Joe...
break out the O.J....hang out with the pooch...time to check out the Funnies!

 

Bail Out the Acronyms

 

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