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 videos are a series on naked shorts, or bear raids causing the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, a video showing the SEC response to Congress asking them how precisely they missed the biggest fraud and Ponzi scheme in history and Congressional Oversight Panel Chair Elizabeth Warren on the Daily show.

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!

Did you know that international, corporate and state bribery is valued at over $1 trillion a year?

Frontline's Black Money an in depth investigative documentary on the state of international bribery today.

This is a Lowell Bergman work so as one can imagine, the investigative report quality is truly in depth. Most interesting is the problem if one country stops bribery the idea is other nations will have a competitive advantage to obtain large defense contracts for they will pay the bribes.

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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!

The White House is in full hypocrisy mode. While Obama Treasury Secretary Geithner tries to do a massive power grab, invites financial sector CEOs to craft policy and cooperate in their multi-trillion dollar U.S. taxpayer money pig fest, the auto industry is shipped to bankruptcy court. Even worse, Chrysler is to be broken up into good cars and bad cars, yet Italy (Fiat) gets the good cars and the United States gets the bad.

Meanwhile Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs struggles as reporters immediately question the different standards:

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!

I'm in a fairly foul mood about what is going on with Obama policy despite so many shouting from the roof tops this is not what they voted for...

So, I thought a stroll down history lane on how while WWII raged on U.S. and British banks were doing business with Hitler was in order to set the tone.