Legal English: Financial Crisis

The documentary 'Inside Job' discusses the 2008 financial crisis. The end of part 2 (12'52'') and the begining of part 3 expain how the new mortgage system was a time bomb...
part 2/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfU1H4q5lT8&feature=related

part 3/8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPjGIW8_Bc&feature=related




Video: PBS Frontline - The Warning
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/?autoplay

"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?" (more »)

Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/?autoplay#ixzz1Q3TAXuXF

Prime 4: Risk-taking

Human Physiology : Why Do Humans Have Adrenaline? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OgVUaNZQtw&feature=related

Adrenaline: Fight or Flight Response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g25d7_Afmc&NR=1

Wingsuit Base Jumping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4U6T_BB1N8&feature=related

Legal English: Weiner / Disciplinary Action

Expulsion and Censure:
http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Expulsion_and_censure

List of United States Representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded

Anthony Weiner Photo Scandal Survivable, Political History Shows

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/anthony-weiner-photos-scandal-polls_n_875154.html

Congressman Weiner Ethics Violation? [ABC: 6-08-2011]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnAh_0AHuw

WIVB.com: Hochul speaks on Weiner ethics probe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsETdlHd2c

Legal English: Mergers and Acquisitions

PBS Newshour

How Will Consumers Fare in T-Mobile, AT&T Merger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9nXwi0VWTw

In NBC-Comcast Merger, Concerns Linger Over Concentration of Media Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cK_97ztRKI

Mergers and Acquisitions Due Diligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaBD8aBzOok

Legal English: American Needle v. NFL (2)

Visit the original posting on this topic from last year
http://alexctjblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/legal-english-american-needle-v-nfl.html

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FTC Video: A Brief History of the Birth of the Federal Trade Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NssfPApe5iQ&feature=related

Cornell Law: Antitrust
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Antitrust

FTC Files Joint Amicus Brief with U.S. Department of Justice in Matter of American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/nfl.shtm
The Brief: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/09/090925nflbrief.pdf

"Supreme Court Reaffirms Application of Rule of Reason to Joint Venture Conduct"

from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
http://www.skadden.com/Index.cfm?contentID=51&itemID=2089

PBS Newshour Video: Supreme Court Watch: NFL Merchandise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sj39fzSEkk&feature=related

Video: Sports Illustrated's Michael McCann "NFL Antitrust Ruling"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjkZohzi86I