It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

The BBC produced the below 2011 economic documentary, The Party’s Over: How the West Went Bust. Business editor Robert Pest goes through the U.K. financial and economic history of the last 30 years and concludes, surprise, much of it was illusionary and really kind of stupid. Enjoy.

The focus is on Britain and the loss of their manufacturing base, opting for financialization and a consumer society. Sound familiar?

The Party’s Over: How the West Went Bust

There are two episodes 1 hour each, the video should play through to the second.

It's Friday Night! Well, actually it's not, but this documentary was just released. In keeping with our series on economic documentaries let's just pretend it is Friday. So, Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

The Wall Street Journal has produced an up to date documentary on Europe and the current financial crisis. If you want a refresher on what's going on, this is the documentary to watch.

Europe at the Brink

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

It's hard to find documentaries on Russia's economic system post the Soviet Union regime. Tonight's documentary is on the rise of Vladimir Putin. Russia has turned from an economic disaster zone into an energy superpower. The documentary goes through Putin's rise to power and the economic turn around of Russia for the last 30 years.

The Putin System

The documentary is critical of Putin but it gives some insight into Russia economically. Enjoy.

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Signs of Europe disaster are growing stronger by the day. What's the answer now to avoid yet another economic Armageddon? Honestly the answers are not clear or easy, even when removing special interests. While we can blame all for bailing out banks in the first place, the question is what now? With that, we went on the hunt to have someone explain the big European picture. We found these economic talks on Europe, which do help in understanding what's going on and what are the problems.

The first is a lecture/talk with two Wharton School professors, their lecture title, not ours.

The Euro Zone of Denial Hits the Wall

The next video is a Yale University interview with their European political expert, Professor Cameron.

Eurozone debt crisis

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Earlier Economist Ralph Gomory publicly stated we all should respect Occupy Wall Street and pointed to the history of protest in the United States. Gomory's article reminded me of the Great Depression and the Hoover administration's lack of responsiveness to the people, in particular WWI veterans. The vets were desperate for money and wanted to receive their military service bonus checks early. They were refused and this ignited a protest by the WWI veterans called the Bonus March.

Below is a 2006 documentary March of the Bonus Army.

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Tonight's documentary is Shadow Company, a 2006 film about the mercenary and private military company industry. Private contractors poured over Iraq and elsewhere and to this day we have trillions going to private contractors via the DoD, DHS and other government agencies.

Shadow Company

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

The Occupy Wall Street protests have taken off, so of course now come attempts to belittle and discredit them. Business Insider posted the below photoshopped image, titled Down with Evil Corporations. Whoever created it believes they are showing the hypocrisy of demonstrators using corporate products to protest corporate power and greed.

The photo really shows, instead of it's intent, one has little choice, but to use products from corporations labor arbitraging Americans and raping the financial planet. Markets have become so monopolized by multinational corporations, you cannot find products made by good corporate citizens. With that, the below documentary outlines how multinational corporations have limited consumer choice.

Not For Sale

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Tonight's documentary is TED talk by Economist Martin Jacques on how China is projected to overtake the global as the world's largest economy.

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

This weekend is Labor Day. Unfortunately and surprising, there doesn't seem to be a modern, award winning, high quality full length documentary on the history of labor in the United States. It's so bad, it's difficult to find any labor history made past the 1980's. Amazingly enough, people are not being informed how labor gave most Americans the quality of life and employment rights most take for granted today.

With that, the below clip explains where Labor Day came from. No, it wasn't created for mega sales,

Labor Day History

Next up, first up is a playlist (it will play continuously) of the History of Labor in the United States.

Labor History

It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

With the latest massive dust storm, droughts threatening cattle and creating states of emergency, heat domes covering 1 million square miles added to the stock market crash and never ending jobs crisis, one cannot help but think of the dust bowl and it's contributions to the Great Depression.

With that, this week is the PBS American Experience documentary, Surviving the Dust Bowl.