We Will Be on Harry Shearer’s Le Show Tomorrow
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We Speak on Democracy Now About the Mortgage Settlement
Hope you don’t mind the spate of posts with my various media appearances on the mortgage settlement. This was my first time on Democracy Now and they do do their homework. A producer ran out to me when I was on deck to ask if the total deal was $25 or $26 billion. I said all the Administration messaging was $26 billion, but the numbers seemed to add up to more like $25 billion, they must be rounding up on the subtotals. He came back and said they couldn’t make it add up to $26 billion and so would report it as $25 billion.
Here’s the segment:
Read more...Will Government Bank Mortgage Deal Help or Hinder Prosecutions?
This Real News Network segment was recorded before the deal was announced today, but the observations are still germane.
Read more...Your Humble Blogger is on NBC News Tonight and Democracy Now Tomorrow
When media rains, it pours. Had to turn down BBC and Cenk Uygur. Also did a recording with Harry Shearer which will run on Le Show probably this Sunday, but if not, next Sunday.
NBC told me I needed to really dumb it down, and I thought what I said did sound sorta dumb, but at least they are allowing critical views to be expressed.
Read more...Catch Us on Harry Shearer’s Le Show Today
Hope you have the opportunity to tune in. You can find local broadcast times here.
Read more...Should Banks Be Public Utilities?
We discuss what the role of banks should be, given how much government support they have, on Real News Network. Enjoy!
Read more...We Speak on BNN About the Europe and Banks
I quite enjoy the host on this segment. We had a good talk about the usual topics, the state of the markets, with a focus on Europe and the banks.
Read more...We Speak on RT America About Business’s False Quest for Certainty
I haven’t done this show before and quite enjoyed the chat, although I did muff words in a couple of places. I’m finding that I seemed to be banned from US TV channels, but the flip side is this was a much more substantive conversation than you’d find on the usual suspects here.
Hope you enjoy the segment.
Read more...We Speak on BNN About the US Housing Market
This was the weirdest little booth at NASDAQ. The seat was at an off angle to the camera, and I couldn’t sit up straight without bumping my head against the glass behind me, which is curved. So I look a bit whopperjawed and uncomfortable at the top but I think it came out fine in the end.
Read more...We Speak on BNN About the S&P Negative Watch for US Debt
I had hesitated to post this video, since I wasn’t too happy about it. Just before the segment was about to start, I got a cross feed on the audio, which meant I was listening to another show! I had to open the door to my itty bitty booth and yell to the production guys to fix it (I was already tethered so I couldn’t really go anywhere). This happened twice. The remote video was also on a big delay, so I couldn’t watch it to see my hosts.
I think that got me sufficiently adrenalined up that I got a bit stroopy and also invoking ideas (like gold standard versus fiat currency constraints) without explaining them enough.
Oh well. One reader thought it was OK and chided me for not linking to it. Hope you like it.
Read more...We Speak on BNN About Housing Outlook, Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Discussions
This was a wide-ranging talk on US housing with the very well informed hosts at BNN. Enjoy!
Read more...“The 25 Best Financial Blogs”
Time Magazine has developed a list of best financial blogs. Naked Capitalism is on the list, as are the other usual suspects plus some names readers might find surprising.
Each blog gets a mini-review. Ours is here; we also reviewed The Big Picture.
Read more...We Explain the Mortgage Mess on Harry Shearer’s Le Show on Sunday
Our session with Harry Shearer last year was so well received that he is rebroadcasting it on Sunday. Check here to find the time in your local area if you missed it on the first go-round.
Read more...Reagonomics Was Pro Business, Not Pro “Market”: We Speak on Real News Network
The centenary of Reagan’s birth is providing an excuse for trotting out a lot of hoary old myths and selective history about the 40th president. We gave a bit of an antidote on the Real News Network.
As much as I thought this clip came out well, I have a minor quibble, and wished the folks at Real News Network had not invoked the expression “free market” in the headline on their site. It’s a dangerous bit of propaganda, a malleable, often slippery concept (per Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty “It means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less”) and is rife with internal contradictions (see our long form discussion in ECONNED for details). The equivalent expression in the 1960s was “free enterprise” and that conveyed far more accurately whose interests were really served by the sort of liberalization being sought.
Enjoy!
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