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the 2008 Financial Collapse, how should we re-build the rules of the
Global Economy
Readings: Leopold, pp. 39-51, 67-72, 80-114; Uncle Sam, the Enabler;
Greenspan and the Wisdom of Markets ; Krugman, "The Madoff Economy"; Hightower, "Madoff isn't the Problem"; Spitzer, "The Real AIG Scandal" ; Ziuek, "To Each According to His Greed"; Reich, "Why Wall Sreet Reform is Stuck in Reverse" ;Spitzer, "The Regulatory Charade"
Videos: Credit Default Swaps: Fall 2009 60 minutes stories;
DVD: Lobbyists 2009 (1) ; Warning; DVD (40 minutes):
DVD: Financial Meltdown --Meltdown (On Housing Boom)
Inside Job (2010) (23, 40 min)

Alternative to Economic Globalization
- How to Prevent the Next Wall Street Crisis
- LTCM: It's a Short-Term Memory
- Finance before the Next Meltdown
- Greenspan Recants
- The Pillage People
- Posner, A Failure of Capitalism
- Krugman, The Madoff Economy
- The End of the Financial World as we Know It
- Krugman, Reagan Did It
- Reckless, part 1
- Reckless, part 2
- Saftey Nets for the Rich
- Johnson, Who Caused the Crisis
- Prins, Its Takes a Pillage
- Obama Speech to Wall Street
- The Death of Rational Man
- Johnson, The Next Financial Crisis
- A New Financial Foundation
- To Each According to his Greed
- Who will Rein in Wall Street
- Bill for Tarp could be Huge
- What else could our Bailout have Bought
- Why there was no depression
- What went wrong with Economics
- Krugman, What went wrong with Ecconomis
- Geitner and Wall Street
- Global Financial Crisis 2008
- All Fall Down
- The End of Wall Street's Boom
- Brown, All Together Now
- Krugman, Averting the Worse
- Feds Plans to Police Banks
- Krugman, Boiling the Frogs
- Spitzer, Break the Banks
- Bailout the Bailouts
- Capitalism the Remix
- If an Economists Fall in a Forest
- Changing the World
- Is American Dream dead
- Is the Conservative Era Over
- The Decline of the Middle Class
- Dumb Money Chapte 1
- Economists for an Imaginary World
- Government has a hand in the Economy
- Everyman's Depression
- FDR's lessons for Obama
- The Fed Ignored Evidencce
- The Roof Caved In
- Finding a Gatekeeper in the World of Finance
- Goldman Sachs a Welfare Queen
- Keynes can't Help Us Now
- Krugman, The Widening Gyre
- Hutton, Krugman's Fear for a Lost Decade
- Hightower, Madoff is not the Problem
- Gorbechez, We had our Perestroika
- Posner ?, The Myth of the Rational Market
- Reich, No downturn for Greed
- Gross, The Rich War on the Rich
- Lind, RX for the Economy
- Summers and Wall Street
- Reich, Why Wall Street Reform is STuck in Reverse
- The Big Bang of Bailouts
- The Lehrman Shock
- The Real AIG Scandal
- Spitzer, The Regulatory Charade
- Lind, The Social Fabric is Snapping
- Johnson, US Inequality during the Recovery Period
- Meyerson, Wall Street's Just Desert
- Brooks, We Need a Bailout Too
- Chait, Wealthcare
- Rothkoff, Where are the Leaders
- Rich Income in 2006
- Reckless Part One
- Reckless Part Two
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Debating Globalization

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