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Bill Moyers Show: On Crony Capitalism

Moyers & Company Show 102: On Crony Capitalism from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo . Bill Moyers interviews David Stockman and Gretchen Morgenson on crony capitalism on the January 20th edition of Moyers and Company.

Barron's Calls for a 50 Percent Haircut for Greece

It's time to cut in half the € 327 billion that Greece owes sovereign bond holders in an orderly fashion and delay interest payments on the remaining debt. That's the shock therapy Barron's is urging on the European Union, as more and more voices are coming to agree with Michael Darda, chief economist and chief market strategist of MKM Partners, Stamford, Connecticut, who says the policy of lending new money coupled with aggressive budgets cuts is failing in Europe. In a new report, "Why Bailouts and Austerity Are Failing in the Euro Zone," Darda points out that despite the policy changes urged on the the PIIGS -- Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, now plus now Belgium -- the spreads of sovereign debt in peripheral Europe against the core nations of Germany and France is rising above the levels where it stood a year ago. The problem is particularly acute in Greece, which received a € 110 billion bailout last year from the European Union and the Internatio...

FDIC's Bair: Bank Bailouts Were 'Not a Good Idea'

The Exchange from the Lehrer News Hours, November, 13, 2009 In an interview with Public Broadcasting System's Paul Solman, FDIC chairman Sheila Bair discusses lessons learned from the financial crisis, and looks back on the federal bailout of institutions deemed "too-big-to-fail," saying, "In retrospect, I think it was not a good idea."