Charlie Rose

Ricardo_Amaral  07/09/2012 05:18 AM Report

Reality check:

The Crumbling of America

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=a6d06699394e696a78b2f6fe1209a334&threadid=222491&perpa ge=6&pagenumber=22

July 9, 2012

SouthAmerica: Talking about a monopoly and concentration of power - no wonder the US economy is going down the toilet at the speed of light.

*****

Bloomberg Businessweek – July 5, 2012

The Price of Too Big to Fail

By Brendan Greeley

...On June 28, Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve, said that the markets assume larger banks are too big to let fail. That much we knew. Five banks—JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs—held more than $8.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2011, equal to 56 percent of the U.S. economy, according to the Federal Reserve.

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dunn5102  07/06/2012 02:28 AM Report

It's a shame these guys keep routing the conversation back to Obama. I wanted to hear about Reagan but they dodge that to laud Obama some more.

jjmoor  07/05/2012 11:38 PM Report

This particular program with the roundtable should be shown at schools as part of history learning. A pleasure to enjoy all this knowledge and views from some of the most significant presidents.

These are things that give this country its greatness.

Congratulations

richard-lipscombe  07/05/2012 11:34 PM Report

what a pity that you choose to repeat this weak program... these people may know a lot about history but, they know little if anything useful about current day American politics...America is in decline...there are huge challenges facing all Americans and yet Obama fails to lead them in any constructive way...all your guests use the excuse of the 'difficult times' that Obama has faced while in the White House (makes me want to cry, really, what a star he could have been) rather than point to the fact that this man was elected on a program of "Change you can believe in"... Obama came to White House to fix Washington - what a joke! he has totally failed to deliver any big picture change...even his wife, the first lady, laments the fact that Obama has not taken on the big issues...instead Obama sucked up to Pelosi in his first 2 years of office and gave her a free hand...what a huge mistake that has proven to have been for America..Pelosi has failed Americans - she had so much power in the early days of Obama's White House but she delivered nothing - with the notable exception of introducing more division and derision into the beltway politics...the panel you have assembled there is in my opinion is naive... none of them has any insights into the challenges facing the next President of the US let alone those facing the incumbent in a divided land....let us all hope that the next President is Romney and that he quickly gets onto delivering "change we can believe in"..i don't get a vote but, i have a strong and real interest in Americans pulling themselves out of this Obama funk - we in the rest of world are praying for a change of resident in the White House...on any measure of expectations Obama when the America people hired him for the job he has failed...please get rid of him...please leave the liberal biased historians on the shelf for a while in this election year...

Richard_DeBiase  07/05/2012 04:05 PM Report

People are making a mistake if they still think, 30 years later, that Carter was a loser and Reagan was great. My greatest regret in life is that I've voted for Reagan instead of Carter.

I voted for Reagan because of the Iran Hostage Crisis, not because I wanted to see the Religious Right turn the United States into a theocracy just like Iran. Yes, I knew at that time that Reagan wanted to turn the cultural clock back to the 1950's; but I horribly underestimated how effectively he would do that.

We have lost more than 30 years of social and cultural progress, and still have not gotten back to where we were in the 1970's. But Clinton is even more at fault than Reagan. I voted for Clinton to reverse the Reagan "culture war", not to ratify it (Clinton turned out to be a complete weasel).

In hindsight, Jimmy Carter may have been the best president in my lifetime. I guess you don't appreciate what you have until you lose it.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  07/05/2012 03:58 PM Report

Yes, the power of Fathers--or the lack of one--sure did influence our Presidents--especially Lincoln.

"Father and son were indeed estranged. Abraham did not visit Thomas when he was informed his father was dying. He did not attend Thomas' funeral in 1851. Thomas Lincoln died never having met Mary Todd Lincoln, seen his grandchildren, or even visited Springfield where his son's family lived."

http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln84.html