The Crash of '08, October 12, 2008

John Batchelor Show Special The Crash of '08, October 12, 2008 

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705P ET: Devin Nunes, 21^st California (R), representing San Joaquin Valley, the farm belt of America, re the Paulson bailout package votes of September 29 and October 4, re the global market plunge continue regardless of the Paulson plan.

720P:  Claudia Rosett, Foundation Defense Democracies, re the Obama Policy, for rogues and failed states, vs. the McCain Policy, from the Nashville debate, the the market collapse and the rogue North Korea.

735P: Roundtable with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re the campaign week during the market plunge and the global crisis.

750P:  Continued re the "relationship" between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers and John McCain.

805P:  Dan Henninger, Wall Street Journal, re the collapse of norms on Wall Street and across all of the four estates. A Call for Norms.

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the Russia cooperation with the illicit Tehran nuclear fuel program, re the ambiguous remarks by the presidential candidates re Iran's nuclear weapons program, re the oil bubble collapse and the rogue Iran.

835P: Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times, re Tony Rezko, Barack Obama's campaign financier for the '04 Senate race, cooperating with prosecutors in the ongoing investigation of Illinois government corruption.

850P: Conor Dougherty, Wall Street Journal, re the spiral of the California economy as harbinger for the nation, the continent. California May Point Way for U.S.

905P:  Judy Shelton, Wall Street Journal, author, re the crisis in money, re the gold standard vs. the central bank board, re the prospect of a new Bretton Woods monetary conference called for by Nicolas Sarkozy.

920P: James Polti, Financial Times, re the 35 year-old Goldman protégé at Treasury now in charge of spending $700 billion for Hank Paulson, Kashkari. Rescue Was Sold Softly to the Street

935P:  Bill White, author, "Intrepid," re the Intrepid Air and Space Museum and the famous boat that houses it, re the 1941 birth, the 2001 draft into the War on Terror.

955P:  Jim McTague, Barron's re the de facto nationalization of the banks.

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705P PT:  Amity Schlaes, author, "The Forgotten Man," re the great depression and the FDR errors and oversteps that deepened the crisis, re the Crash of '29 vs the Crash of '08.

720P:  Kristin Jones, ProPublica, re the troika of Paulson, Cox and Bernanke praise credit derivatives once upon a time. Top Regulators Once Opposed Regulation of Derivatives

735P: Professionals Larry Johnson, Diana West, Craig Unger, re the campaign week, re the dullness of the Nashville debate, re McCain erratic and Obama cool, the market rules, and the end of the banker.

750P:  Continue re the "relationship" of Ayers and Obama and McCain and Palin.  Re the Chicago report that Tony Rezko cooperating about Alexi Giannoulias, the puppy treasurer of Illinois and Barack Obama's hand-picked candidate for Rod Blagojevich.

805P:  Professionals Bill Whalen, Hoover, and Jim McTague, Barron's, re the California credit crisis, re the run on small and medium regional banks, re the imminent collapse of Detroit and Dover (credit cards), re the campaigns ignore reality to talk about jobs.

820P: Continued re the market crisis and the credibility of Bush, Congress, the Federal Reserve, the G7, and globalization.

835P: Charles Forelle, Wall Street Journal, re the collapse and bankruptcy of the krona and Iceland with it, re the poster for banking excess, re the krona vs. the cod.

850P: Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal, at Shanghai, re the Chinese military breaks off cooperation with the U.S. military over the Taiwan arms deal.  Re the market collapse and Chinese stability. Pentagon Feels Chill Set In With China.

905P:  Jimmy Rogers, author, "Bull in China," from Singapore, re the global credit panic and the crash of '08.  In March, Jimmy Rogers told this audience to sell every rally and fire Ben Bernanke and to stop bailing out the guys with Maseratis.

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, Universe in a Mirror, re the trouble with Hubble, re the NASA cutbacks on Mars and in low Earth orbit, re the US cuts a deal with Russia Soyuz, re the space program and the U.S. budget.

935P: James O'Donnell, author, "The Ruin of the Roman Empire," re the limits of the Romanization of continental Europe, the revanchism of the Byzantines until the dead of the Sauron-like Justinian (563 A.D.) and the rise of the Franks and the Britons as the center of global civilization for fifteen hundred years.

955P:  Lou Ann Hammond, re the collapse and bankruptcy of insolvent Detroit, GM first.