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GRITtv: The F Word: Credit Where Due, Geithner

We talked about the economy today, and whether Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner deserves more credit. What he should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.

GRITtv: Mar. 15 2010

Welcome to GRITtv's new format! We're coming to you from our new studio in SoHo, shooting higher resolution video. We'll be bringing you 30 minutes of content 5 days a week from now on, featuring more of our friends from around the country, more field reporting, and some other new surprises as well. Hope you enjoy! Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, joins Laura in studio to talk about recent news. A spate of profiles of Timothy Geithner hit the news recently, from Vogue to the Atlantic and several places in between.

GRITtv: Lost Decade for Unemployed Youth

The focus during the unemployment crisis has been largely on those who have lost their jobs, but students and first-time job seekers have been hit hard as well. Viany Orozco of Demos points out that for those who enter the workforce for the first time during a recession, the wage hit can last for many years down the road. Orozco joins guest host Ed Ott, a longtime labor activist, and Tahir Duckett of the AFL-CIO's Working America to talk about youth unemployment, why it matters, and how it connects to the student activism springing up around the country.

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GRITtv: Mar. 9 2010

Orozco joins guest host Ed Ott, a longtime labor activist, and Tahir Duckett of the AFL-CIO's Working America to talk about youth unemployment, why it matters, and how it connects to the student activism springing up around the country. Students across California--and the country--held protests on March 4 against budget cuts that are cutting courses and hiking tuition at state universities. In these videos from New America Media, students and protesters speak out about the state's overspending on war and prisons and underspending on education.

GRITtv: Compromise, Capitulation and Capitalism

Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda.

GRITtv: Mar. 3 2010

Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda.

GRITtv: The F Word: Who's Protecting The People From Banks?

If going head to head with bankers alone is too scary for Warren Buffett, why are the rest of us being thrown to the financial wolves?

Warren Buffett's annual letter to his shareholders came out this weekend. The gist of it is: "Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut."

That's Buffett, one of the world's richest men, warning his clients that their financial advisers' advice is skewed by the financial system in which they operate--which is a very biased place.

GRITtv: Mar. 2 2010

On February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant. Clay Shirky rejoins us at GRITtv along with Juan Carlos de Martin, founder and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Italy's Polytechnic University to discuss the case, the implications for Google and YouTube, and how the Web continues to change and shape our understanding of the world.

GRITtv: The F Word: Better Uses for Bankers' Billions

What could be done with $20 billion? A whole lot of Wall Street bankers are about to find out. $20 billion's what the New York Comptroller's office says the Street's bonuses bounced back to in 2009 -- up 17 percent from the year of the crash. According to the latest data the average bonus was $123,850 at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase, all of which taxpayers bailed out. Their bonuses this year were almost a third bigger than last year.

GRITtv: Tues. Feb. 23 2010

The Olympics have seen more than their share of controversy this year, from the death of a Georgian luger early on to the ongoing debate about policing, spending and co-opting Native land for sports. But many people still love the games, and tune in to watch sports that get forgotten the other three years--or to see dream teams put together to compete for gold.

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