Charlie Rose

Mujkocka  09/10/2010 06:40 AM Report

i agree with JohnGelles. you can live in a low tax country but you won't have a big house like you have in US. look at all the low tax havens. is there anyone of them you would like to live in at all or can afford to? you also need to remember some of the tax havens are not tax havens to the local residents.

JohnGelles  08/30/2010 05:23 PM Report

Forgive the typos. But not the temper. You all stink in spades--if you can't see our opportunity in the decades ahead to protect democracy with economic democracy where education starts at birth and never stops. Where the USA Inc. does not expect the private sector to BOTH lead the nation and give taxes away that are what it will take to even to follow a great leader.

Taxes have one purpose only -- to prevent hyperinflation. They do not fund government. Congress funds government -- and if it does not, the President must give it a tongue lashing until it does.

Paul Krugman has been right al along. Bernanke talked a good game but is reluctant to lead -- he is not president, Obama is.

And Charlie Rose has the best audience on TV. USE IT! Let's get Krugman, Forstater and Wray on one side and Ferguson, Geithner and Volker on the other. Let them explain how Lincoln would lead today, how FDR, Morgenthau and Eccles, would follow Lincoln's lead and make government for the people work and government for no purpose disappear .

JohnGelles  08/30/2010 05:08 PM Report

I am one of Charlie's older fans. Fan? Yes. I may accuse him of egomaniacal "chiming in" during an interview when he contributes "nothing" and the interviewee knows a lot AND in the audience at home REAL people know REAL stuff that never gates on the air.

But that does not mean I'm a disloyal fan. All it means is th charlie is in idiot -- and who is not these days?

I' 85. And I remember EVERYTHING. I remember that I learned that money is nothing more than a system of accounting for price in a world where supply and demand for for REAL food, clothing and shelter, is EVERYTHING. And the Nixon freed us from calls on our gold reserves.

So there is no rhyme or reason for Obama to be afraid of Congress. He promised us responsible effective government AND NOW HE CHICKENS OUT. He dose not demand in a public rhetorical contest the th REPUBLICANS state their demands to obtain their votes in the Senate for law to protect work and the middle class!

If they did, the demand would be for tax breaks for the RICH. TO WHICH ANY SANE PRESIDENT AND SANE INTERVIEWER IN CHARGE OF THE CHARLIE ROSE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM would answer with a resounding YES!

After all, Keynes and his demand side theories never had any use for taxes. They had no use for debt. They wanted monetized demand to absorb mass production and maintain full employment!

I blame the Democratic Party for the weakness of our economy at this moment. We -- including old brains like mine-- elected them because McCain confessed he knew no economics.

By default, we elected Keynesians because THEY KNEW ALL ABOUT ECONOMICS.

What's to know when your own your own mint and central banks. To "know" is to have the list of projects and programs Obama promised to put the nation to work on-- and after you got elected-- DO IT.

It is all spelled out in our experience as THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY AT WAR.

All you have to do is tweak it a bit and become THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY FOR PEACE THAT AVOIDS WAR AND FIGHTS NATURAL DISASTERS AND MAN-MAN MADE PROBLEMS.

Money? If we have unused capacity-- WE HAVE THE MONEY that will buy the production we can summon at full capacity devoted to the goals of Lincoln and FDR.

Where is Obama's challenge to the people who elected him and both houses to support him to enact FDR's Second Bill of Rights.

In that Second Bill there is no right to free trade that will destroy our industrial skills and power!

TO CHARLIE ROSE AND ALL THOSE BRAIN-DEAD BRAIN SCHOLARS: You need money for research, training new scholars and scientists, and treating all those patients? THEN HOW ABOUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT MONEY IS !!!!!

I many be older than a lot of you. But I'm not as stupid as you are.

c824767  06/07/2010 09:12 PM Report

http://brainmind.com/Depression.html

interesting, depression can injure the brain (and also be caused by brain injury). i suspect subclinical brain injury and brain impairment caused by self perpetuated depression leads to much dysfunctional behaviour and impairment of wellbeing. in other words, if one finds ways to get into a better mood this can stop the process and cure the brain damage.

manning  03/29/2010 05:14 PM Report

Scott Small says adults can't grow neurons.

Fred Gage of the Salk Institute and researchers at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden discovered new cell growth in the hippocampus in five patients ages fifty-five to seventy.( page 139 KEEP YOUR BRAIN ALIVE by Lawrence C. Katz and Manning Rubin. ) www.neurobics.com

Charlie,I'm sending you a copy of our book which covers many of the things discussed on your wonderful series on the brain. I originated and co wrote the book with the late Lawrence C. KJatz ( himself a Howard Hughes Investigator)

Manning Rubin manningrubin@earthlink.net

ShalomFreedman  03/28/2010 03:02 PM Report

This was one of the most clear and readily understandable programs of the series. However I wish there had been more focus on 'normal aging' and not simply on the dramatic decline of 'Alzheimer's. Each of the contributors added a certain significant element to the discussion. The distinction between 'declarative memory' and 'implicit memory' seemed one real basis of the discussion. But the cautionary word of Eric Kandel towards the end of the program in which he suggested how difficult it is to find effective drugs to ameliorate various kinds of memory loss indicate how limited still the understanding of these processes of loss are.

sweaver  03/28/2010 10:28 AM Report

Absolutely fantastic series. I have not been disappointed yet. The knowledge which is shared is so enlightening particularly to the laymen such as myself. I love this series and Thanks so much to Charlie Rose show for providing positive programming. Look forward to the next episode.

alphasun  03/26/2010 11:06 PM Report

Excellent programme, as good as anything done by the BBC.

winter  03/26/2010 01:40 PM Report

This just may be the best your show gets. I was riveted by this groups exchange. The politics of the day is getting to where it dominates every waking hour of a disproportionate number of the populace. This was and I'm sure will be most insightful; for quality you just can't beat being informed, educated and even entertained.

JLRmapman  03/26/2010 11:32 AM Report

Fantastic series.

As I age, I am confronted by more and more friends & family who seem to be experiencing some kind of brain degradation-especially depression.

Though I try to keep up with stuff like this show provides, I find that in the end, it gives me no actionable information that I can apply to the every day misery I see people struggling with.

Is it just me experiencing this? Whenever any of these depressed, anxious, addicted people I have known have sought treatment, they invariably just receive some kind of 'we-are-not-sure diagnostic' along with a sedative whose side-effects hopefully wont make their lives worse.