Author: DOuG pRATt

The Economy, Frontline and center

Since the collapse of the credit markets in 2008, the PBS documentary series Frontline has been producing an outstanding, if perhaps overly dramatic, series of programs explaining the causes of the crisis and what’s been happening in the Great Recession since then. The latest is Money, Power, and Wall Street. It borrows a lot of interview video from the earlier programs, but there could have been more from the show about Brooksley Born and her warnings about the dangers of high-risk betting with borrowed money masquerading as “investing.”

Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

Roku

This isn’t a post about the Roku video player. Roku was the sixth startup venture for founder Anthony Wood, and roku is Japanese for the number six. Today was the sixth anniversary of this blog, and admittedly I’ve lost some momentum recently, but I promise that I’m not completely idle.

‘Toon Treasures

It’s a beautiful late summer Sunday, and before I get motivated to do my stretching routine and put some miles on my running shoes I’m enjoying a book I picked up last week at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. It’s the TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comic Books. The book came out a few years ago, and I was interested in it then, but now it’s a must-get item at a giveaway price of only $16. The audio player has a review by NPR’s Milo Miles, who provides some excellent background on the material.

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