Gayle in MD
11-21-2009, 09:02 AM
One thing we should all be able to agree on, is that our country is best protected by an eduated electorate!
As I have often written, the best way to do this is by watching Charlie Rose, and Bill Moyers Journal, and of course, reading books, instead of watching cable news.
Here is a link to Charlies Rose's recent interviews.
I highly recommend the latest interviews with Thomas Friedman, Warren Buffet, Stephen P. Cohen, Peter Orzag, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, this last, you will have to search for on the website, because I dont see it on this page...
Also. Bill Moyers aired segments from the Johnson tapes, which sould give anyone who thinks we should escalate in Afghanistan, or that we should have stayed longer in Vietnam, plenty to think about, as it points out the futility of fighting wars in countries which are corrupt, and where the populace isn't fired up to make changes in their own lives.
The entire falicy of listening to Generals on the ground, for the best way forward, for me, atleast, was blown away by these tapes, so clear that Generals are not the people who should set policies.....
http://www.charlierose.com/guest/grid/recent
also, Michael Winship, at the same Moyers link, sheds a good deal of light on the legal decision of holding the trial of the terrorist, in NY.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/
Additionally, Mr. Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book, is an incredibly good read. The documentaion is excellent, and it is probably the most interesting read on the recent Bush Administration's Economic Crash, of any I have read so far....with a time line, and from the personal slant of the people most involved, and how the events unfolded...a human take on the subject. The most interesting economics book I've ever read.
Product Description
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.
Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.
G.
As I have often written, the best way to do this is by watching Charlie Rose, and Bill Moyers Journal, and of course, reading books, instead of watching cable news.
Here is a link to Charlies Rose's recent interviews.
I highly recommend the latest interviews with Thomas Friedman, Warren Buffet, Stephen P. Cohen, Peter Orzag, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, this last, you will have to search for on the website, because I dont see it on this page...
Also. Bill Moyers aired segments from the Johnson tapes, which sould give anyone who thinks we should escalate in Afghanistan, or that we should have stayed longer in Vietnam, plenty to think about, as it points out the futility of fighting wars in countries which are corrupt, and where the populace isn't fired up to make changes in their own lives.
The entire falicy of listening to Generals on the ground, for the best way forward, for me, atleast, was blown away by these tapes, so clear that Generals are not the people who should set policies.....
http://www.charlierose.com/guest/grid/recent
also, Michael Winship, at the same Moyers link, sheds a good deal of light on the legal decision of holding the trial of the terrorist, in NY.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/
Additionally, Mr. Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book, is an incredibly good read. The documentaion is excellent, and it is probably the most interesting read on the recent Bush Administration's Economic Crash, of any I have read so far....with a time line, and from the personal slant of the people most involved, and how the events unfolded...a human take on the subject. The most interesting economics book I've ever read.
Product Description
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.
Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.
G.