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In this Wharton Leadership Lecture, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain offers his opinions as to what caused the crisis, what can be done to prevent it from happening again, and when it will be over — not just for the financial industry but also for Main Street. This is the first in a series of three videos on the lecture, which include Thain’s remarks to the audience, questions from the three-member panel and, finally, questions from the audience.

Private mints in the US are printing gold and silver coins. Congressman Ron Paul would like to see those coins in circulation. If businesses decide to accept these coins, would it mean the end of the dollar? Or just a big mess?

This is a snippet of what Robert Kiyosaki was teaching at a symposium, interesting stuff. For anyone interested you really should go and read that book called ‘Finanical IQ)

The Listening Post looks at how the global economic crisis has the media reaching for the superlatives as they predict ‘the end of capitalism’. In this week’s News Divide we take a look at a truly global story: The collapse of some of Wall Street’s most venerable financial institutions has left economies around the world trembling. The financial and business pages have taken over the front pages and news anchors are competing to find strong enough superlatives to characterise the disaster …

Barack Obama, the US President is running out of patience with US bankers, whom he accused of fighting common sense consumer protections. In a meeting on Monday he urged them to support new legislation to reform Wall Street. And he told them they owed it to the country to help the economy by lending more money to small businesses. It comes after a clearly irritated president said he did not run for office just so he could help out a bunch of fat cat bankers. But does the new legislation go …

In this Wharton Leadership Lecture, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain offers his opinions as to what caused the crisis, what can be done to prevent it from happening again, and when it will be over — not just for the financial industry but also for Main Street. This is the third and final video in a series of three, which include Thain’s remarks to the audience, questions from the three-member panel and, finally, questions from the audience.

Following her recent presentation to the Society of Technical Analysts, Christeen Skinner looks at a couple of the key astrological moments that may shape markets and economics over the next year. In common with many other technical indicators the planets are pointing at more pain to come…

While Barak Obama tries to reform the financial system, victims of the crash try to bring US banks to justice.

Author Dr. Michael Graham’s revised book tells how to heal portfolios