Yesterday, PBS’ aired on their program Frontline: 10 Trillion and Counting, it’s scary to see the financial mess that we’ve gotten our country into, and it’s not going to be pretty getting out of such mess. It this financial crisis can be considered a “global” crisis then at least we’re still going to look pretty good in relation to the rest of the global neighborhood. Afterall, our debts are still in our own currency, it’s not like Mexico or Argentina, who in past economic crisis have been faced with debts denominated in dollars, but with assets that are valued in their own currencies, that makes a world of difference.

                          

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

The more one reads about the financial mess Wall Street elites and our government has gotten our country into, the more I’m inclined I am of becoming an anarchist.

For a bit on the negative implications of globalization see the 2006 Charlie Rose interview of David Graeber, anarchist and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University.

How did we get to here, well Frontline did a good piece called: “Inside The Meltdown” and it’s well worth an hour of your viewing.

Tonight Frontline will follow up with “Ten Trillion and Counting”

I should warn you the more your read, the angrier you’ll get.  Matt Taibbi’s article The Big Takeover which he wrote over at Rolling Stone pretty much sums up the pent up anger most people are feeling about this financial mess.