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www.pbs.org The debate over what to do about debt is nothing new, according to anthropologist David Graeber. Alison Stewart talks with Graeber about our misconceptions about debt and why it plays such a large role in history. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know at video.pbs.org

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Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain Episode 1 – ‘Advance Britannia’ (Pt 2) 1945 – 1955 – William Beveridge – Atomic bombing of Japan – Truman pulls plug on aid – Britain in debt – John Maynard Keynes goes to Washington to negotiate loan – $4bn US loan – Ealing Studios – Rationing still in place – Sir Stafford Cripps – Passport to Pimlico

This morning, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises is holding a hearing to assess the alleged $50 billion investment fraud engineered by Mr. Bernard L. Madoff. This is the second in a series of hearings that will help to guide the work of the Financial Services Committee and the Capital Markets Subcommittee in the 111th Congress in undertaking the most substantial rewrite of the laws governing the US financial markets since the Great Depression. Harry Markopolos, an independent financial fraud investigator for institutional investors and others seeking forensic accounting expertise, as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Fraud Examiner, testifies. Learn more at: www.speaker.gov

“The Ascent of Money” Niall Ferguson, Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson for a discussion of his new book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.” In the conversation, drawing on insights from the biological sciences, Ferguson describes the rise and evolution of finance focusing on insurance, banks, and the bond market. Using the examples of housing and the US China economic relationship, Ferguson demonstrates the way history can inform our understanding of the current financial crisis. He also reflects on the implications of the financial crisis for American global hegemony. globetrotter.berkeley.edu globetrotter.berkeley.edu

www.oneradionetwork.com – One Radio Network – THIS IS JUST 10 MINUTES OF AN HOUR SHOW – LOG ON TO OUR WEBSITE AND LISTEN TO THE FULL SHOW FOR FREE – Eustace Mullins was a student of poet and political activist Ezra Pound and frequently visited Mr. Pound during, (Mullin’s words), the time he was held a political prisoner at the behest of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Mullins was 82 in 2007 when we talked with him from his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains about his life and mainly about his book, “The Secrets of The Federal Reserve”. Fascinating study of how this private banking cartel came into being. This is just one of over twenty books authored by the scholarly, brave and passionate Eustace Mullins. Eustace Mullins (born 1923) is an American political writer, author, biographer, and the last surviving protégé of the 20th century intellectual and writer, Ezra Pound. He is the only person in the world to write a factual book on the Federal Reserve and to date non of the facts in his book have ever been challenged by any persons. He also wrote the infamous murder by injection which explains why we moved from homeopathic medicine to allopathic medicine and the governments and individuals who profited or gained from this. In Secrets of the Federal Reserve (1952), Mullins highlighted Paul Warburg, Edward Mandell House, Woodrow Wilson, JP Morgan, Charles Norris, Benjamin Strong, Otto Kahn, the Rockefeller family, the Rothschild family, and other European and American bankers …