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The videos in this entry are from the NOW on PBS on November 12, 2009. The video is available in full at PBS. Elizabeth Warren (Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP) is interviewed.

Part 1 (9:35)

Part 2 (8:31)

Part 3 (6:02)

This is a clip from the Democracy Now March 3, 2010 program regarding "vulture capitalism" and a BBC documentary done by Greg Palast - includes interview with Palast. Vulture capitalism refers to investment companies (almost universally based in the United States) which purchase debt of poor nations for pennies on the dollar, and then collect at double or triple that amount.

This discussion aired on 10/09/09 On Bill Moyers Journal. Speaking are Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and Simon Johnson professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management/

This is an excerpted clip (2:36) of Andrea Mitchell interviewing Barney Frank on TARP on July 10, 2009. Full video (5:35) Partial transcript in extended entry.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (approx 20 minutes)

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008.

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008,

The following video clip is from the March 20, 2009 Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel did an excellent piece on the deregulation that lead to the AIG blowup, and the larger mess. She does an excellent job explaining it.