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This video is to promote a new season from the BBC called “Superpower” which launches on 8 March, in the video “the people of the internet” are portrayed as extraterrestrial figure sending messages to the people of Earth, showing how important the internet has become to civilisation and its impact on how we live.

This video featuring Bill Nighy has been created by the people at Robin Hood Tax which is a group backed by many charities, unions and celebrities including Oxfam, the Salvation Army, Bono & Richard Curtis.

The idea is to call for an international transaction tax on investment banks with the alleged potential to raise as much as £250bn a year to bolster public services and fight climate change and poverty.

Will be interesting to see how it goes I bet a lot of politicians and economists will favour this approach to banking reform

This video is from the Real News Network and according to Professor James Crotty: We are heading for an even bigger financial crash which is due to the creation of speculative bubbles which create false values which lead to huge bonuses! A very interesting insight and some of the comments are as enlightening love the quote:-

“People inflated the prices of tulips and soon everybody was hoarding them,and selling their houses in order to get rich off them.”

The following video is more insight from Profesror Crotty  – Exec compensation: “Heads I win tails you lose”