Showing posts with label Exotic financial products. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exotic financial products. Show all posts

Jun 14, 2009

Michael Moore's New Film

Few areas of policy have the potential to erupt and capture the American imagination during campaign season as the bailout of the banks and financial institutions.

Visceral populist outrage is a political operative's dream.

At whom will this outrage be directed?

President Obama has resisted for several reasons the naming of names and demands for accountability from specific parties as his administartion has literally saved the world from a depression.

Can one new film by Michael Moore change the political landscape? Yes.

Moore is a brilliant political journalist and filmmaker with an unusual aptitude for understanding American political culture.

Accountability and the naming of names will be demanded and Moore's film, coming to theaters October 2, may well be the impetus

Watch for a qualitative difference in the political culture, demands for the naming of names "supplied by [Treasury Secretary Timothy] Geithner, identifying the criminally negligent, arrogant speculators."

'Save our CEOs' Teaser for Michael Moore's New Film Hits Theaters!

May 6, 2009

Frontline's Inside the Meltdown

Great thriller, surreal. And it's real:

Frontline - Inside the Meltdown
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. "There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left," says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.).