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Joe Biden Rallies Arnold, MO, October 30, 2008

2008-11-02T15:08:26Z

Hitting hard on the "upside down" McCain-Palin economic policies, Joe Biden fired up the crowd at a rally in Arnold, Missouri

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Afshin Rattansi talks to Max Keiser about a recession in Japan

2008-10-31T03:29:26Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser in Paris about a global recession.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter at its sharpest rate in seven years, adding to worries that the world's No.2 economy has slipped into a recession as global growth shows more signs of losing steam.

Consumers and companies cut spending as they struggle with steep energy and raw material costs, while spreading damage from the U.S. slowdown hurt exports to emerging nations -- possibly marking the end of Japan's longest expansion since World War Two.

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Henry Kissinger - China as a Rising Power

2008-10-28T21:30:24Z

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses the long-term implications of Chinese economic and political growth for United States security.

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Henry Kissinger discusses war and more with Peter Robinson as part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, Uncommon Knowledge.

War and the media - the two have not partnered so well since Vietnam. But in the days of the Internet, conservative talk radio, and Fox News, has the dynamic changed?

Kissinger says only a bit, and that the media remain heavily biased against military action.

Additionally, the 1960s concept that the U.S. government is somehow an evil enterprise is alive and well.

In this environment, Kissinger says our leaders need to present a clearer and more educated vision of the American role in the world - Hoover Institution

Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs which he first assumed in 1969 until 1975. After leaving government service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is chairman.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge. Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MB.

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Marshall Goldman: Putin, Power, and the New Russia 1

2008-10-31T21:31:35Z

"Would Russia be different if Putin had never come to power?" asks Russian expert Marshall Goldman.
This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on June 4, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org

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Senate hearing: GDP fails to measure progress

2008-10-18T09:30:43Z

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Martin Collier: We are what we measure and GDP does not measure what we value

Wednesday March 19th, 2008

Martin Collier is founding Executive Director and a Managing Board Member of the Glaser Progress Foundation, created by Rob Glaser, CEO and Chairman of RealNetworks. At the Foundation, Collier oversees initiatives to: create new and better measures of national progress; support independent and progressive media; and strengthen the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is the Treasurer for Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, a Board Member of ProgressNow and FUSE and an Advisory Board Member of Free Press. He is a past Board Member of the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture. Before joining the Foundation, Collier was an analyst for the Washington State Senate and an attorney focused on environmental and consumer interest class action litigation.

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Well-Being Defined

2008-10-23T21:31:08Z

Economists throughout the world are beginning to use happiness as an economic indicator. This week Gallup helps refine this approach.

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C. K. Prahalad - Globalization's Effects on the Global Poor

2008-11-10T20:42:40Z

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C. K. Prahalad, acclaimed professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, discusses both good and bad effects of globalization on the global poor.

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"Globalization for Better or for Worse: Civilization and the Environment" with CK Prahalad at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.

In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.

Coimbatore Krishnao Prahalad (b. 1941) was born in the town of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. He studied physics at the University of Madras (now Chenai), followed by work as a manager in a branch of the Union Carbide battery company, gaining experience of management, He continued his education in the US, earning a PhD from Harvard. He taught both in India and America, eventually joining the faculty of the University of Michigan’'s Business School, where he holds the title of Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy.

C. K. Prahalad is the author of many books, including "The Core Competence of the Corporation" (1990), "Competing for the Future" (with Gary Hamel, 1994), and "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits" (2004).

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