My Recession Survival Guide

A great satirical interview from earlier in the year. Funny, because it’s true.

Here are Times Money’s 100 tips on how to survive the downturn. Click on the links below for advice on how to save thousands of pounds on everything from property and mortgages to energy bills, insurance premiums and motoring costs.
Read the rest here: 100 tips to recession-proof your life

So Alan Greenspan admits he’s made some mistakes over the past years. Greenspan - I was wrong about the economy. Sort of.
Congressman Henry Waxman “My question is simple. Were you wrong?”
Greenspan “Partially … I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organisations, specifically banks, is such that they were best capable of protecting [...]

Here’s a video of a 2 hour conversation between Goerge Soros, Nouriel Roubini and Jeffrey Sachs which was hosted by the Earth Institute Event at Columbia University last week.
Earth Institute Event: Can we save the world economy?

Fred Harrison is another person with some foresight on the current situation. He is one of the people that was influenced by Henry George. He’s the author of the very gloomy ‘Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of 2010′
Here’s one of his articles from 2005: The Mystery Of Britain’s Missing Recession
Fred Harrison’s main [...]

I can’t believe I’ve been posting videos from so many ‘Bears’ but have ignored one of the biggest Doom-Mongers around. (He even has a website called Gloom Boom Doom)
Here are interviews with him from 2007.

When I was travelling in Australia I met an investment guru named Paul Anderson. We talked about travelling and he told me how when he was in his early 20’s he was in India. He wanted to know why some people were so wealthy while others had nothing and so began his study of economics. [...]

The government of the UK has always denied that the UK suffers from the same problem of sub-prime mortgages and so called NINJA loans (no income, no job, no assets). Although several investigations have shown that there might be a lot more sub-prime mortgages about than many people realise. As the number of repossessions increase [...]

Red Vs Blue is a ‘machinima’ animation series which means that computer game graphics are used for the animation. Here’s Red Vs Blue’s take on the current situation.