David Puttnam: What happens when the media's priority is profit? | Video on TED.com

David Puttnam: What happens when the media's priority is profit? | Video on TED.com: In this thoughtful talk, David Puttnam asks a big question about the media: Does it have a moral imperative to create informed citizens, or is it free to pursue profit by any means, just like any other business? His solution for balancing profit and responsibility is bold … and you might not agree. (Filmed at TEDxHousesofParliament.)

The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism - David Stockman - Mises Daily

The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism - David Stockman - Mises Daily: "The triumph of crony capitalism occurred on October 3rd, 2008. The event was the enactment of TARP — the single greatest economic-policy abomination since the 1930s, or perhaps ever."

Janet Tavakoli: Goldman Sachs: Bullies on the Block

Janet Tavakoli: Goldman Sachs: Bullies on the Block: "Arianna Huffington's new book, Third World America: How Our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream speaks for the disenfranchised middle class: Americans that have lost wages, lost jobs, lost value in homes, and lost substantial value in investments and retirement funds. The U.S. middle class is being scammed out of existence. Wall Street and large corporate special interests -- including energy companies, large financial institutions, drug companies, and the large military industrial complex -- effectively bought Washington."

National Inflation Association

National Inflation Association: "The big news in the financial mainstream media during the past week has been JP Morgan's announcement that they will be closing their proprietary trading desks. JP Morgan is in the process of winding down their proprietary trading operations and will be laying off their 20 proprietary commodities traders, who NIA believes could be responsible for the current concentrated short position in silver. NIA has been receiving countless emails from members asking us if this means the silver manipulation is coming to an end and what this means for the price of silver."

Reagan Insider: 'GOP Destroyed U.S. Economy'

reagan-insider-gop-destroyed-us-economy: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance: "'How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy.' Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, 'Four Deformations of the Apocalypse.'

Get it? Not 'destroying.' The GOP has already 'destroyed' the U.S. economy, setting up an 'American Apocalypse.'"