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The real truth about the 2008 financial crisis

Crash of 1987

Before the Crash - Wall Street - Part 1

Before the Crash - Wall Street - Part 2

Before the Crash - Wall Street - Part 3

After the Crash - Wall Street - Part 1

After the Crash - Wall Street - Part 3

 

Federal Reserve (FED)

The Money Masters

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 1 of 5)

Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 2 of 5)

Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 3 of 5)

Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 4 of 5)

Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 5 of 5)

 

Banking and Money

Banking 1: Introduction

Banking 2: A bank's income statement

Banking 3: Fractional Reserve Banking

Banking 4: Multiplier effect and the money supply

Banking 5: Introduction to Bank Notes

Banking 6: Bank Notes and Checks

Banking 7: Giving out loans without giving out gold

Banking 8: Reserve Ratios

Banking 9: More on Reserve Ratios (Bad sound)

Banking 10: Introduction to leverage (bad sound)

Banking 11: A reserve bank

Banking 12: Treasuries (government debt)

Banking 13: Open Market Operations

Banking 14: Fed Funds Rate

Banking 15: More on the Fed Funds Rate

Banking 16: Why target rates vs. money supply

Banking 17: What happened to the gold?

Banking 18: Big Picture Discussion

The Discount Rate

Repurchase Agreements (Repo transactions)

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet

Fractional Reserve Banking Commentary 1

FRB Commentary 2: Deposit Insurance

FRB Commentary 3: Big Picture

LIBOR

 

Currency

Currency Exchange Introduction

Currency Effect on Trade

Currency Effect on Trade Review

Pegging the Yuan

Chinese Central Bank Buying Treasuries

American-Chinese Debt Loop

Debt Loops Rationale and Effects

China keeps peg but diversifies holdings

 

Credit Crisis

The housing price conundrum

Housing price conundrum (part 2)

Housing Price Conundrum (part 3)

Housing Conundrum (part 4)

Mortgage-Backed Securities I

Mortgage-backed securities II

Mortgage-backed securities III

Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)

Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swaps 2

Wealth Destruction 1

Wealth Destruction 2

 

Greek Debt Crisis

Greek Debt Recession and Austerity (part 1)

Greek Financial Crisis (part 2)

How and why Greece would leave the Euro (part 3)

Why Europe is worried about Greece

 

Paulson Bailout

Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. Solvency

Bailout 2: Book Value

Bailout 3: Book value vs. market value

Bailout 4: Mark-to-model vs. mark-to-market

Bailout 5: Paying off the debt

Bailout 6: Getting an equity infusion

Bailout 7: Bank goes into bankruptcy

Bailout 8: Systemic Risk

Bailout 9: Paulson's Plan

Bailout 10: Moral Hazard

Bailout 11: Why these CDOs could be worth nothing

Bailout 12: Lone Star Transaction

Bailout 13: Does the bailout have a chance of working?

Bailout 14: Possible Solution

Bailout 15: More on the solution

 

Geithner Plan

Geithner Plan I

Geithner Plan II

Geithner Plan 2.5

Geithner Plan III

Geithner Plan IV

Geithner 5: A better solution

 

Spanish Crisis

Video
THE GREAT SPANISH CRASH

 

Argentina Economic collapse

Argentina Economic collapse

 

Meltdown: The Global Financial crisis

Meltdown: The Global Financial crisis

 

Financial History

The crash of 1929

The sixties- The years that shaped a generation

 

Series Keynes versus Hayek

Keynes vs. Hayek

"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

Hayek vs. Keynes Sequel Sneak Peek at The Economist Buttonwood Gathering

 

The Wall Street Code

The Wall Street Code

 

Quando a Europa salva os bancos, quem paga?

Quando a Europa salva os bancos, quem paga?

 

"Dangerous crowd" In the age of mass democracy

Century of the self 1 of 4

The Century Of The Self - The Engineering of Consent

Before the crash

Video
The Century Of The Self - 4 - 4

 

Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth Documentary

Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth Documentary

 

The march of the bonus army

This is the story of what the American Government, President Hoover and General MacArthur promised and failed to deliver. Could it happen again? THIS DID HAPPEN only a couple of generations ago.

 

The real truth about the 2008 financial crisis | Brian S. Wesbury

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The Great Economic Myth of 2008, challenging the accounting to accounting principal.