Hedge Funds and the Global Economic Meltdown (Part 1)

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1. Easy hedge funds buy cheap then collect at higher price. Like Argentina and Puerto Rico.
2. Sorry I meant is not sustainable
3. Judd, very good job in putting this together. Please keep educating people, information is key to get out of the hole where we are. I would like to read more material from you. Heinz was just bought by a Hedge Fund and a wonderful 100 years old company has lost a lot if intelectual capital in a matter of months. I do not think squeezing so much money out of a perfectly working company is unsustainable. I have watch all this myself first hand.. What is left for future generations? Help!!!!
4. It will be interesting to see the analyses of the financial meltdown after about 3 or 4 more years once enough time has elapsed for the full effect to have occurred.
5. Im so sick of these assholes all getting away with tons of money and not even being charged for those crimes. It really sickens me. This world is going crazy. Going crazyly fast to hell that is. unbelievable.. 
6. I support teaching the economics in schools starting in 4th grade as a class right beside math, science and history. People don't understand the complexities of the financial system, things like collateralized debt obligations, mortgage-backed securities, and credit default swaps to name a few....You just can't explain it to them at a 10th grade level in two sentences and hope they will understand. Education is our best defense in a country that demands the freedom to make bad decisions.
7. @writerjudd In all of the research I've done it would seem that LB did enough to hurt itself. The executives had begun lying to there own employees about the strength of their position in the market and with the government (bonds). While I think what you've done here is entirely possible and in my mind even probable, your series appears to allege the LB was an innocent victim, when in reality their own business practices made them targets for the NSS that killed them. 
8. Ron Paul for president.
9. So, the problem is US government and SEC, more than the investment banks themselves.
10. The fact of the matter: I’m not sure the American populace has the moxie to vote for someone who tells the truth. I think they want the ‘showman’ who spins the yarn, all the while the populace seemingly laps it up. Republicans and Democrats are engaged in the destruction of the middle class by printing trillions, which punishes savers, while rewarding those willing to go into debt. I’m not sure the American populace has the critical thinking skills to make thoughtful decisions. 
11. Excellent video! But, if you folks haven’t figured it out yet, our country has become a Plutocracy. Remember the financial bailout that nearly every intelligent American was against? Well, when it passed, what you just witnessed is called a Financial Coup D’etat. Wake up America…it’s not about Republican, it’s not about Democrats, it’s not about Liberal, nor is it about Conservative…it’s about POWER and MONEY. Our Democracy has been slowly eroded to a full-blown Plutocracy.
12. If you click on my user name, you can see me initiating my computer program... which is the only Top 10 Hedge Fund artificial intelligence available to the average person.
13. @bondsly This is inevitable in a market-based, monetary society. Please watch ben bernanke and all of his well-paid cronies bring down civilization as we know it.......Finally.....reboot the world...peace now. Thanks to ben and the Federal Reserve for being so greedy....without you, world peace, in the current paradigm, would not be possible.
14. @prodigee411 I love when old people play on the computer! Find your caps-lock key; gramps.
15. Damn you Bears Stearn, for scratching our otherwise flawless 2008 economy! The effects of Bears Stearns has little to nothing to do with the downfall of our economy today.
16. Someone in the goverment crashes the markets to make people go broke so that the goverment will have people depending on them for help it gives the goverment more power and control over people.The politicians are always making the stock market crash all the time by over spending it effects the economy and devalues the US dollar then they tax everybody to death along with all the sales taxes and legislation they write to fine people for everything they do and companies moving over seas is bad.
17. THE INTERNET IS VERRRY DANGEROUS. ANYONE CAN SIMPLY POST A VIDEO SUPPORTING A POSITION, WITH VERY LOOSE EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE THEIR CLAIMS. THIS VIDEO IS A TESTAMENT TO THAT.
18. @writerjudd Please don't spread these kind of lies. There are bear stearns types of options transactions for hedging and a multitude of other reasons, almost on a daily basis. I admit, there was naked short selling during the crisis, but let's remember that bear stearns collapsed because of BUYERS LIQUIDATING and NOT short sellers "forcing" the market down. Please go finish a book on macroeconomics, finance and market mechanics. 
19. I must say thank you for this video, without you I would have not known this important information
20. i THINK we should blame Keyne's philosophy