good afternoon and welcome to capital account happy friday i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. the u.s. unemployment rate dropped to eight point three percent for january naturally it was cheered at a good photo op for the u.s. president barack obama to say the economy is improving but. these numbers will go up and down in the coming months. there are still four to really emerged. the job that pays better than the one lisa bloom. we couldn't agree more in fact a large chunk of those people who finally found work last month landed low wage jobs and yes numbers will go up and down but those that haven't been able to find work for more than twenty seven weeks that's six months well that number isn't really moving it's stuck at five point five million youth unemployment is stuck at twenty three percent and there's more don't worry we'll break it all down speaking of work say happy birthday to the u.s. income down x. as we hear rallying cry is this presidential election season for raising taxes in the us we have a different message for washington stop stealing from us before you eve

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. ben bernanke is defending the federal reserve's financial repression of savers. i recognize that it poses our ship. the purpose of our policy though is to create a stronger economy. and he also says there are no signs of inflation lucky for us legendary investor jim rogers is here to tell us how wrong bernie is meanwhile angela merkel is in china reportedly trying to convince the country with three point two trillion dollars worth of foreign exchange reserves just for a little in the direction of the euro zone so one could shelling out for the trouble debtors by the largest creditor nation in the world will find out and another major euro zone credit pusher christine legarde we just saw her taking her fund raising at first to the world economic forum coming to collect for the i.m.f. but one my of her and more of these heavy hitting women the butting heads will give you the back story let's get to the day's capital again. ok so ben bernanke the federal reserve chairman testified on cap

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. have been monday what a week the greek debt talks continue to painfully drag on and on new e.u. statistics meanwhile speak to the success of debt crisis policy prescriptions in countries forced to seek bailouts the debt grows in greece portugal and ireland looking back to q three two thousand and eleven some solutions those are we'll talk about where this is headed and the emasculation of wall street are we witnessing it come on we'd like to see financial crisis criminals face charges for their roles bailed out bank executives forced to give up their bonuses and have a knighthood like they do in the u.k. and get fired how about that so far we still see a lot of signs the biggest firms are getting favors not punishment from the regulators who may have the power to emasculate we'll tell you all about those signs later on and ron paul may not be leading the polls for the u.s. republican presidential nomination but is he a mouse in the political capital needed to rein in the brony capital

capital a cloud capital account with lauren lyster coming up stay with us. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for monday february thirteenth. probably seen images like this by now athens on fire this city literally burning as politicians within parliament voted to pass a tough austerity measures to meet the demands of the e.u. and i.m.f. their international lenders this story is about so much more than just austerity and riots though it's wealth extraction amid economic collapse at work we're going to break down exactly how that works and while we're on debt let's talk about how the u.s. is dealing with it or not dealing with it u.s. president barack obama released his two thousand and thirteen budget today well it will be analyzed how did and attacked why should you care or really why should you not care we'll tell you and as more economists come out saying the federal reserve is making a big mistake if it sticks to keeping interest rates near zero for the next three years we'll lo

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and ben bernanke testified on capitol hill again today the big question from the media how would last week's good u.s. jobs report affect monetary policy while bernanke he actually said the numbers understate weakness in labor but is the debate over the monthly jobs numbers simply moot ronald reagan's former budget director says the numbers are made up so is the b.l.s. the emperor with no clothes and if so why are markets in the media going along with it and greece has agreed to lay off thousands of public workers as talks are scheduled to continue over more cuts over meeting more terms to get its next dose of troika money politicians and media are bracing for the market's reaction to any development.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for february twenty fourth two thousand and twelve a u.s. lawmaker is reportedly planning to introduce this sound dollar act early next month now this is legislation reportedly to move the federal reserve from a dual mandate to a single one fighting inflation and protecting the dollar's value mood what exactly would that mean then for the fed's unofficial mandate of trashing the dollar will take a look at that question and turkey the fastest growing economy after china is being penalized in the credit markets reportedly for failing to promote consumer savings that's according to bloomberg see there you have it more evidence that savings matter so does this mean the federal reserve needs to end its work process and zero percent interest rates i'll talk about it finally with central bank policies of the fed and the e.c.b. with trash to cash programs are we seeing transfers create exponential wealth extraction turning into compound inequality and ultimately se

welcome to the capital account i'm lauren lyster. and what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery to see where are we heading state controlled capital score sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t.v. question more. well tomorrow marks the seventy fifth anniversary of the end of the flint sit down strike this is a big deal guys and really interesting too we're talking tens of thousands of people banding together to fight for better working conditions in u.s. auto manufacturing plants so it all started when the united auto workers union targeted two general motors plants and workers showed up at work and sat down inside so that new workers couldn't come in and replace them well in nearly shut down the company and before long other plants followed suit and well you could say it took a while but they got the attention of the big boys the heads of the auto makers let's fast forward to today t

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for february twenty second two thousand and twelve well known analyst meredith whitney says the middle class is being de banked in her view with the by product of banking regulations. some of this was good but the unintended consequences is it's really squeezing the middle end and i think that you're going to see more and more people live outside the system and when that. meanwhile are the big banks getting around the key piece of regulation meant to shut them out of the business of posing as this demick risk to the entire economy by speculating with customer money with your money with the protection of you the taxpayer will speak to members of occupy that as the seed to break down the holes in the already under attack volcker rule also in the e.u. even though bailout is a naughty word according to an official they too have not created a system to deal with a failing bank with out one and i mean a bailout reuters reports the e.u. is struggling to get new fi

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for february twenty eighth two thousand and twelve ireland were for the lead hold a referendum on europe's new fiscal treaty first stricter budget discipline the former prime minister is coming out against it saying hey hold on a no vote could force ireland out of the euro now we've seen referendums called for before in this euro zone crisis and didn't seem to end well last time for democratic self-determination so will this be yet another case of this economic crisis is just too much for democracy name a story of we need technocrats to navigate this world. or is it and are zombie banks feeding on governments turning them into zombies to that question and talk about a low quiddity crisis in europe look at that wait for it beer all over angela merkel now it is all that cheap liquidity generated by the e.c.b. for euro zone banks going right back to germany as the weaker ones like italy need to keep going back to the bar just to keep their glasses from drainin

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good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for tuesday february fourteenth the two biggest economies sat down to the table and missed an ongoing trade rift i'm talking about china's v.p. who is also next in line to president is in washington meeting with u.s. president barack obama at the white house as they do the diplomatic dance we've recently heard tough talk towards china from both obama and republican presidential hopefuls we will separate campaign rhetoric from reality meanwhile the eurozone meeting to talk about greece's bailout tomorrow has been cancelled meanwhile in moody's rash of european sovereign credit downgrades most were similar to moves we've already seen from other ratings agencies this surprise though was the u.k. moody's is the first big firm to warn the u.k. could lose its aaa status it put it on negative outlook the heavily indebted u.k. is often left out of the euro zone crisis debt domino zone more look at how the chips are stacking up now and how they may topple finally our br

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for february twenty ninth two thousand and twelve u.s. regulators are holding roundtable talks today about how to protect customers money to keep it from basically being stolen this is of course in the aftermath of the m.f. global collapse we will speak to a lawyer representing eight thousand and the global customers in the bankruptcy he says new u.s. regulations will not stop firms from going the way of m.f. global as long as they can go to the u.k. to take on virtually on limited leverage they'll tell us how m.f. global was getting around us leverage limits this way similar to a idea in two thousand and eight and why it's going on unchanged and federal reserve chief ben bernanke he gave his economic checkup to lawmakers today which meant a real acquaintance with republican presidential hopeful ron paul. something that i think would be a compromise that we could work along those of use. good to see you again a christmas miracle. that's always entertaining

because every time i see him i hear him complain about the government keeping the interest low lauren lyster has made this same argument now i can't speak for anthony randolph but maybe you know we'll get a chance to hear from him but as for me first if this person thinks i see things through the same lens as a wall street broker then i don't know how much she's seen of the show because i don't think you hear wall street complaining too much about low interest rates you see them benefiting from them and all we do on this show is analyze what's wrong with wall street so to go on let's get more specific as lister has done they lament the fact that they are not making money from interest being low for god's sake we're in the middle of a housing crisis there are probably millions of us who are making our mortgage payments on time who will foreclose when rates go up if we are not able to stabilize these loans when interest rates are kept artificially low okies need to sustain these laws so our argument this is something we talk about all the time ok this savers when interest rates are kept artifi

been positive towards us before here's an example recently they put up one of our video saying lauren lyster teaches economic whatever peter schiff the word of the day deflation but then they posted a video talking about how we're. saying we're pushing austrian economics as the solution to the problems anyway i don't know exactly what they said because we responded and we actually invited them on the show to tell us you know what their problem is to talk about it with them and they took down the video there's the e-mail saying they took it down and also evidently their objective is not to attack our team but actually they invest funds looks like in alternative media they see it as an opportunity so that's a little time to think about but we want to clarify for anyone who thinks as they think we're not austrians on our show we have austrians keynesians people who subscribe to m. and t. as mike norman does that deflationists we don't endorse a specific ideology we do endorse alternative thought and i just want to leave you with that oh no this kind of funny segment we did oh excuse me i can't

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for february twenty third two thousand and twelve the e.u. catches on that the eurozone is facing a recession while greece is still the gum on everyone shoe our guest has been warning that greece is headed towards default for two years now and for anyone billing this latest greek deal as a solution kung-fu analysts ready middleton is here to karate job the accounting shenanigans masking the real story. thanks. it's. the will set us straight news here to tell us why more than default the word of the day on everyone's mind should be contagion meanwhile in the u.s. uncle sam may be getting ready for a fire sale dumping millions of foreclosed homes many that u.s. taxpayers own sounds like a good investment deal only if you're an individual investor forget about it say thank you to crony capitalism for that one we'll explain and japan and the u.k. are fighting the volcker rule why are foreign governments getting into this fray over u.s. regulation we'll tell you

for some economic perspective with lauren lyster and capital account stay with us. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines from february sixteenth two thousand and twelve bank of america citi group goldman sachs j.p. morgan morgan stanley the list goes on they could all see their credit ratings cut moody's has said it could cut seventeen global firms due to funding issues of regulatory burdens and a more difficult operating environment not to mention one hundred fourteen european financial institutions speaking more down the street with traders is reportedly a greek default is on everyone's mind in part because of the bigger fear surrounding credit default swaps so what is this risk really and wal-mart mcdonald's starbucks how do you feel about paying your employees so little that most of them are poor henry blodget c.e.o. and editor of business insider is out seeing this question in a post today so is this what's wrong with capitalism in america the reason for the shrinking middle class the so-

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and remember this. why don't you know we're going to say a lot of the customers are freaked out waiting to see how logar dow will go but. it's been more than three years since the financial crisis and we never cleaned up the mess now we're seeing the consequences so just how close are we from having this happen again and why haven't we been willing to pay the price of change and the e.u. has a treaty deal meanwhile banks are set to double crisis loans from the e.c. b. oh yeah everything is just fine in your banks are just fine in europe they just mean perpetual bailouts after all and from bailouts to ballots florida residents cast their votes in the republican presidential primaries consider this we've heard presidents before talk about how bad adding trillions to the debt is. the responsible. patriotic. and then they do a complete about face once they're in office they lie to get elected it shouldn't pay to lie why don't we make presidents members of congress elected officials person

well capital account is up next on our teaser let's check in with the host with the most lauren lyster to see what's up on her agenda today lauren what you got cooking for us lucy we have a great show i heard you talking a little bit about iran and about kind of the military implications of all of that we're going to talk about oil and these sanctions i'm sure you saw all of the reports today about what iran is or isn't doing about cutting off oil to europe we're going to look at it yeah the consequences of sanctions from the west this one consequences it's about time we look at them and how they're exactly worth it to people on the streets of greece who cannot pay for gas and are in a depression or people in the u.s. who are struggling economically why do they want higher oil prices because of some threat that may or may not be in iran we really want to break that down also the eurozone crisis ok it's been going on we see more turmoil about whether this bailout of greece is going to get done or not we're going to talk about what this means for democracy and what this means. we are alr

capital account with lauren lyster coming up stay with us. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lister here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for february fifteenth two thousand and twelve europe is shrinking at least the economy is italy's things into recession the eurozone contract for the first time since the second quarter of two thousand and nine. is reportedly going to help with the bailout athens appears to be bowing to ministers additional demands over their bailout but at what cost for the country for europe and for democracy are we going to see a revolution you'll hear from european m.e.p. nigel farage on that and iran cuts crude to european nations preempting saying since we did they will they are they are conflicting reports as far confusion as oil prices have hit a six month high earlier today of a hundred and twenty dollar a barrel oil up until now there has been talk but yeah there are real consequences to sanctions a price to pay for saying since for cutting off oil we'll look at all of those and de

welcome to the capital account i'm lauren lyster. a major announcement by fox business network they're dropping three of their primetime shows including the show freedom watch hosted by judge and politan a freedom. it was one of the top rated shows on fox business channel and so far there is a really been a reason given for the cancellation and according to a fox press release freedom watch will be replaced by re airings of shows run earlier in the day so i want to talk about this but first let's take a look at a few clips from his show that gives you a peek on his viewpoints in what he has done and in what he will become the thomas jefferson of our day ron paul is one of us. but senators mccain and eleven of the added this legislation which would authorize the president to declare the entire united states of america all fifty states and all territories to be a battlefield the government of the united states shreds your rights every day it taps our cell phones it reads our e-mails it kills people abroad with predator drones it strip

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for thursday february night italian prime minister technocrat mario monti has been in washington meeting with barack obama today meanwhile greek leaders scraped together a deal on austerity but they may face the same problem arguing about this again three months from now fractures in the e.u. continue to appear as leaders try to keep it together but does any of this matter or does the likelihood of a european disintegration have to do with something else entirely will explain and is the same thing that moves markets moves women ten lines is the same thing driving the dow what drives hollywood producers to make movies like this.

our guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me tonight is lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r.t.e. and comedian lafayette right. hey guys thanks for joining we would love to have welcome to the show but. we're going to start this evening off with reminding us ourselves what it's like when obama likes to sing a song. the was. loose was now let's compare that with what happens when mitt romney tries to sing a song. oh beautiful for spacious skies for. i mean. there are ads i just don't get any better or worse i guess i got to give it a bit of press about obama going to his black and over for the next turn. around but i'll hear both mom was impressed me he's just saying like. they're not being oppressed bussau some even flow. saying it just like you know this recited the lyrics from life or do life again the thing with the south al green was cheating well whatever i want to see mitt romney does and al green that yeah you know ok yeah bring it on guys. i think i should have a little what together i think it should be if they end up debating there should be like a like no

cross to washington to take a look at where business and politics meet in capital account with lauren lyster you're watching our. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm laurin mr here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for wednesday february eighth u.s. republican presidential hopeful rick santorum won all three republican voting contest last night let me remind you of some of his thoughts on foreign policy. on occasion scientists we're going to do your program in a wrong turn up dead. i think that's a wonderful thing. a wonderful thing he's also advocated airstrikes very nuclear facilities in iran now as we hear the drumbeat of war from the west towards iran we often see war and politics as separate from the economy they are not putting.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for monday february thirteenth. there's probably seen images like this by now out then fire this city literally burning as politicians within parliament voted to pass the top austerity measures to meet the demands of the e.u. and i.m.f. their international lenders this story is about so much more than just austerity and riots there.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for wednesday february eighth u.s. republican presidential hopeful rick santorum won all three republican voting contest last night let me remind you of some of his thoughts on foreign policy. on occasion scientists working on the nuclear program in a wrong turn up did. he go to wonderful but. a wonderful thing he's also advocated arab.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for friday february tenth greek negotiations do not look like business as usual anymore greek police unions have called for the arrest of i.m.f. and e.u. officials one of the greek coalition leaders said on television he was given an incomplete translation of the trade agreement to look over before signing away his country are we seeing in real time what happens under a modern financial occupation and what lessons should the u.s. and every other indebted nation be learning from this in the u.s. the house passes legislation to ban insider trading by congress it's called the stock act this just as the chairman of the house financial services committee who's worked on efforts to tighten these rules on capitol hill in the past is under investigation for what else insider trading talk about it and federal row.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and ben bernanke testified on capitol hill again today the big question from the media how would last week's good u.s. jobs report affect monetary policy while bernanke he actually said the numbers understate weakness in labor but is the debate over the monthly jobs numbers simply moot ronald reagan's former budget director says the numbers are made up so is the b.l.s. the emperor with no clothes and if so.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. here are your headlines for thursday february night italian prime minister technocrats mario monti has been in washington meeting with barack obama today meanwhile greek leaders scraped together a deal on austerity but they may face the same problem arguing about this again three months from now fractures in the e.u. continue to appear as leaders try to keep it together but does any of this matter or does the likelihood of a european disintegration have to do with something else entirely will explain and is the same thing that moves markets what moves women's hemlines is the same thing driving the dow what drives hollywood producers to make movies like this. dream. and forget jobs or the eurozone crisis is the dow really the best indicator of who will be you as president we'll hear from robert proctor he's founder of elliott wave international and states and federal officials have finally reached out foreclosure deal a twenty five billion dollars settlement with the five biggest banks

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for february twenty third two thousand and twelve the e.u. catches on that the eurozone is.

that's all we have time for thanks so much for tuning in feel free to follow me on twitter at lauren lyster to give us feedback on the show at youtube dot com slash capital account i'm lauren lester and from everyone here thank you so much for watching and have a great. read . would be over for your media project seal come to the heart. download the official antioch location kewaunee phone the i pod touch from the. life on the go. to london month. month old come. on the registry now in the palm of your. mug. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from golden. streets of canada. showing confirmations of. the be. above. yet another sad day for u.s. relations with afghanistan after protests across the country turned deadly all of this in response to the burning of a peron at a nato military base we'll tell you why the.

our guide time for a happy hour i'm going to be deceiving lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r.t. and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger a black. hey guys. good thanks for having me on thanks for having me on your show to go you know i want to mention making the rounds and. let's talk about i mean there's a lot of things you can get a vending machine these days right you can even get like i phones or something they have like apple opening machine at like little act that thing but maybe you never expected this one take a look. you know it's a burger university you can now get more than snacks from a vending machine and the college is now making the morning after pill available through a vending machine the plan b. emergency contraception can be obtained through a machine in the health center each dose cost twenty five dollars and the university will not make money from the sales. what do you think is the time that we loosened up a little. early that's brilliant that is way more valuable than i guarantee all of the other things combine

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