Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle: Global Financial Crisis (Episode 4)

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle: Global Financial Crisis (Episode 4)

www.presstv.ir In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Dr, Paul Craig Roberts from Georgia who is an American economist, columnist for Creators Syndicate, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Reagan Administration and an editor of the Wall Street Journal.

www.presstv.ir In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Dr, Paul Craig Roberts from Georgia who is an American economist, columnist for Creators Syndicate, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Reagan Administration and an editor of the Wall Street Journal.

With Greece’s debt mounting by the day and the United States starting to recover from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, will there be a ripple effect from Greece’s troubles? While US cities and towns wrestle with financial problems, investors are finding a new way to profit on their misery: by buying derivatives that essentially bet municipalities will default.

Barack Obama, the US president, is expected to unveil a plan aimed at preventing the global financial crisis from worsening. The blueprint will impose broader government oversight on the nation’s banking system and create new agencies to regulate banks. From New York, Al Jazeera’s John Terrett reports on what is being called the most sweeping overhaul of financial rules since the Great Depression.

- Hun Sen will throw away all his PhDs – Leaked famous Cambodian stars in escort service list. CCNN got the list and guess who’s in it. – Trob Sambath report on the global financial crisis

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that the global economic downturn could create a widespread humanitarian crisis in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries.

Emeritus Professor Sidney Winter, the Michael Crouch Visiting Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Australian School of Business, in conversation with renowned US economist Dr Alice Rivlin.

For the United States to contend with a financial crisis on this scale is fiscally possible, says Ferguson. The situation is actually much worse for Europe and for the petro-powers. This Carnegie Council event took place on November 20, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to www.cceia.org