Ron Paul discusses the collapsing financial markets. “We’re in the middle of something very big and it doesn’t look like it’s going to end soon.”

Argentina’s Economic Recovery: Four Years After the Meltdown, featuring CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot and former IMF Research Director Michael Mussa, November 30, 2005

Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina’s assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition. If you want to stop the same thing from happening here, and it is happening here, right now, please join the revolution at the Kick Them All Out Projet http://www.KickThemAllOut.com and the Fire Congress Campaign.

Janet Gellici with the American Coal Council reveals the facts about coal as an affordable energy source and as a clean energy source. She discusses Obama’s mention of “bankrupting” the coal industry and “skyrocketing” energy costs under Obama’s dangerous and costly “cap and trade” plan. Coal-generated electricity provides over half of our electricity, and if coal were to be abandoned for generation, the US would have to build 250 nuclear power plants to replace it. Solar and wind are not viable replacements at this time for this half our electric supply; and as the auto industry develops electric cars, electricity demand will increase, further straining existing power plants. Electric cars are in truth largely coal-powered cars. America is energy independent in coal, and destroying the coal industry will make America more dependent on the oil cartel.

The American Coal Council, led by Janet Gellici, is working with the coal industry to develop and improve clean coal technologies that will give Americans clean energy without bankrupting the family budget to just pay for energy needs under reckless cap and trade schemes.

When he called himself “a skinny kid with a funny name” at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, his political star was already on the rise. By the time he decimated the competition in 2004 race for the Illinois Senate, he was the bona fide golden child of a Democratic Party desperately in need of a winner. In many ways, the story of Barack Obama is a uniquely American tale of the 21st century, where racial lines are blurry and the most interesting chapter is just beginning.

Illinois Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to deliver his innovation agenda, speak with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and take questions from Google employees. This event took place on November 14, 2007, as part of the Candidates@Google series.

Barack Obama met with his economic advisors in Washington DC to discuss the challenges that the US economy faces.

Barack Obama announced his economic rescue plan for the middle class in Toledo, Ohio on October 13, 2008.

In this week’s address, President-elect Barack Obama discusses solutions for our struggling economy in the new year.