Michel Chossudovsky video: The Great Depression of the 21st Century

2009-11-06

Richard Moore

VIDEO: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
Montreal Lecture: The Great Depression of the 21st Century

Global Research, January 17, 2009


THE GLOBAL RESEARCH LECTURE

Montreal, January 14, 2009

 

Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown;
The speculative onslaught;
Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”;
Bankruptcy of the real economy;
 Impacts on employment, wages and social services;
Towards a spiralling public debt;
The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war; 
The centralization of corporate power; 
The concentration of wealth;
The globalization of poverty. 


What are the policy alternatives?