Playlist for The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff - May 25, 2009

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May 25, 2009: Debt is not a good product

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Artist Track
Douglas Rushkoff  Debt is not a good product  
Douglas Rushkoff  NYTimes magazine - as if to convince to get back into the swing of all this  
Douglas Rushkoff  Dr. John - Deal (by the Grateful Dead)  
Douglas Rushkoff  Zhenya Fomin started Green Homeworks, a sustainable contracting business, as a side project in hopes of making a small difference in his community and world. Over time it has turned into a flourishin  
Douglas Rushkoff  design and planning. Zhenya is currently attending PA University to complete his masters in sustainable design.  
Douglas Rushkoff  Porno for Pyros - Thick of it All  
Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor  conversation with Kevin Hughes, bond trader, Smith Barney What the hell is a bond?  
Douglas Rushkoff  Ramones and out  

Listener comments!

Mon. 5/25/09 7:12pm From: Charles-A Rovira

Is anyone there?

Mon. 5/25/09 7:13pm From: Brian Oregon

The video is really good Jeanene!

Mon. 5/25/09 7:14pm From: Charles-A Rovira

Hi Brian

Mon. 5/25/09 7:15pm From: Brian Oregon

Hello Charles.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:15pm From: Brian Oregon

The level of "the market" is an indicator of the power of the plutocracy over the rest of society.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:16pm From: Charles-A

Keep listening because he's got a good guest coming.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:16pm From: Brian Oregon

The stats show that something like 85% of stocks are owned by 10% of the population, even considering mutual funds, etc.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:18pm From: charles-A

Its less that that. Controlling interest is much more controlled

Mon. 5/25/09 7:19pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

Your my hero

Mon. 5/25/09 7:20pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

Your my hero

Mon. 5/25/09 7:21pm From: Charles-A.

I'll take that as a good thing. :-)

Mon. 5/25/09 7:22pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

Green is good but do you make money?

Mon. 5/25/09 7:22pm From: Charles-A

You make money, but you start small and THEN grow.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:24pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

Are you union? Unions dont like you,

Mon. 5/25/09 7:25pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

Unions are afraid of you

Mon. 5/25/09 7:25pm From: Charles-A.

I'm pro-union, but I'm currently unemployed

Mon. 5/25/09 7:28pm From: Charles-A.

I don't think fear is the right way to motivate people to give their best

Mon. 5/25/09 7:28pm From: Brian Oregon

Oregon Institute of Technology has a BS program in renewable energy engineering.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:31pm From: Brian Oregon

and at OIT they are building a geothermal power plant for the campus -- not ground source heat pump, but actually using 200 degree water from a well that will produce steam to drive turbiens to make the electricity to run teh campus.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:32pm From: Charles-A

That would be good to take.

I love the idea of running on geo-thermal

Mon. 5/25/09 7:34pm From: Charles-A.

Now Douglas is talking bonds...

Mon. 5/25/09 7:35pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

I have been very lucky, I have been UNemplyed 4 weeks since 1976, I have always had a job.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:35pm From: Brian Oregon

(My house here in Klamath Falls Oregon has its own geothermal well that heats our tap water (no water heater!) and runs through a radiator to heat our house in the winter. This is one of the few neighborhoods in the US where (some) people have domestic geothermal wells.)

Mon. 5/25/09 7:36pm From: Charles-A.

I've got a spotty job history. I make good money, when I make it, but its spotty.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:37pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

I'm a floor cleaning specialist. However in this economy floors take a back burner. To the Bottom line in the shopping malls

Mon. 5/25/09 7:38pm From: Charles-A.

My heavens, I had a friend who used to live in Port Angeles.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:39pm From: Sr.hairy Hymen

this is a cools show

Mon. 5/25/09 7:39pm From: Charles-A.

As the shopping malls get stressed, the dirt on the floor is not their top priority

Mon. 5/25/09 7:42pm From: Charles-A.

Douglas and his guest are talking about bonds (not James Bond, :-) and I like the guest. Kevin Hughes is a bond trader who makes sense.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:45pm From: Charles-A.

I used to program bond calculations to 11 digits on either side of the decimal point.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:48pm From: Charles-A.

You still there Sr.hairy Hymen ?

Mon. 5/25/09 7:50pm From: Charles-A.

How about you, Brian Oregon?

Mon. 5/25/09 7:53pm From: Charles-A.

<sigh>

Mon. 5/25/09 7:53pm From: Brian Oregon

Still here...

Mon. 5/25/09 7:55pm From: Charles-A.

Thanks. :-)

Mon. 5/25/09 7:57pm From: Charles-A.

The problem partially started when the bond rating firms took junk and re-classified it as AAA.

Mon. 5/25/09 7:59pm From: Charles-A.

Lets hope we're still alive when the system recouver

Mon. 5/25/09 8:01pm From: Brian Oregon

Or hope for some post-plutocratic system of getting resources to the people who need them (where profit is not the primary goal).

Mon. 5/25/09 8:02pm From: Brian Oregon

They changed the Mt Hoe call letters -- it IS wMFU now.

Mon. 5/25/09 8:08pm From: Brian Oregon

um, Mt. Hope...

Tue. 5/26/09 9:29am From: noah

suze orman. pronounced like. suzy.

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