Thursday, April 14, 2011

The age of uncertainty



This video of the old series by John Kenneth Galbraith is fantastic.  The other parts are also available. A little nugget in the begging is the video of John Maynard Keynes.  In an era of gold bugs, a good reminder of why the Gold Standard did not work.
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