Where a person strategically defaults and then another person buys the foreclosure property at auction, selling it back to the person who defaulted (which means they must completely ignore any credit ratings, all private sale, unsure of mortgages/loans involved).

This way they get out of a very hefty mortgage and the auction buyer makes a good 10-20% on this transaction yet the person gets to keep their home.

Something like a "do it yourself" principle reduction.

I cannot blame them. If I had a mortgage for 50% more than a property was worth with little equity, well, considering corporations behavior and the foreclosure mills going on...

I just tried the Google "automatic" system and it puked out garbage. That said, at least all clips which originally came from TV broadcast, I know for a fact those already have CC available, because it's required for regular TV broadcast.

So, may I request you demand youtube put on their automated encoding, which is what happens when you "upload a video to youtube", to capture the CC stream and encode it automatically.

There isn't much I can do, unless we find a tool available to create CC/transcripts after the fact, but it is pretty ridiculous they do not already automatically encode them when uploading anything prepared for TV/Satellite/Film and so on.

It's already there.

Also, almost all of the CSPAN web clips do have transcripts around.

Thanks for reminding me of this. We do (and I really try to require this from other authors as much as it pisses them off!) to include the alt image tags and other accessibility formatting features...

But it's pretty damn important and there is no reason to not include CC by youtube and other sites automatically frankly.

I found this video grabber and am looking for automatic transcript generation.

I forget the name of regular TV captioning service but thank you for pointing out that every single video should have that enabled and available!

Let me know if the above link can somehow automatically generate text from a video feed. It should be in the actual bitstream frankly.

I haven't tried this but youtube just enabled automatic closed captioning, but I haven't tried it, so I'll let you be victim to see if it generates garbage instead of the actual transcript.

If you double click on any of the videos, it should go to the origination site, where maybe there are more tools available that the embedded ones do not have available.

I make a point to do it this way, only a few videos are locally hosted and this is more "EP picks" list.

On UCTV, I don't know yet, they sure as hell should have captioning on their web videos, I mean it's the California university system here, but I don't see it. Maybe that first link works.

If you are aware of accessibility automatic generation tools for media, social/web based media, let me know. This is a major issue, just like all technology, they originally believe only 25 year old males, with no disabilities and always between 5'8" and 5'11" use it. ;)

It looks very strong, to the point GS has already priced in QE2, the big surprise would be the Federal Reserve does nothing.

(also due to the weak factory report. I've read a slew of analysis on the ISM and frankly, the prices are just not that huge of a deal if one looks at the history, but new orders sure as hell are and so is unemployment, so manufacturing being in trouble ....what is new about that?)

QE2 is going to happen, Bloomberg.

That all said, so what, I will update money velocity after the effects of the Fed have sunk in, and note, it's a ratio, velocity, increase money supply, have more uberrich sit on it, buy commodities or whatever, the ratio can actually decrease.

If they handed the money to the poor on the other hand....

I'm seeing some folks have problems registering and signing in. Every time I look into it, they have cookies disabled for the domain economicpopulist.org.

That's in your firefox and ie privacy settings. I'll help you get on the site, just use the contact form under the "About" section in the menu for help.

Also, new menus and features are slowly but surely being added.

Now that we have this big honkin' server, I can add more features that are resource hogs.

I get little feedback on the site in terms of problems, technologies, features, so if something is broke, I must be made aware of it to fix it.

Thanks for using EP. It seems the site has become more of an article/newspaper, but the reality is we have powerful tools on the site for sane discussion too.

In America, anyone who plays by the rules is just perceived to be a sucker.

Frankly when it comes to bonds, money theory and so on, I'm much more weak, but I spent a lot of time on that post and concluded the Fed will "print more money", but not for the reasons people are thinking. I see never ending see posts on EP being read and linked to, referenced, and since we moved to the new server, the traffic has increased, but in terms of comments, it's really slacked off.

Gotta figure out a web method to stop all spam yet enable and encourage easier discussion I think is part of the problem.

But I'd like to see some feedback because when it comes to global money supplies and those topics, it is so easy to make an analytical mistake...

but on the other hand, we have all sorts of idiots out there making their claims and Glenn Beck has become a multimillionaire spewing nonsense, so how could anything I write be worse?

On AIG, this is just one of those things that stinks strongly on slight of hand, but then again, the bail outs, much of it has been just that. At this point, it's all so corrupt, I just almost do not care with the general public being oblivious, focusing in on "smaller government" and turning around demanding policies which create jobs, which really implies "bigger government". (How about efficient and not corrupt government?)

I also think we're seeing a host of last minute moves by the administration and Democrats, all in an attempt to not lose their rear ends in this election.

It's no wonder so many call government statistics the agency of lies...

But I made a mistake. Q1 2010 GPD is 3.7%, but it was revised, dramatically from it's 3rd revision of 2.7%.

I'm continually running down numbers in GDP reports and honestly, especially when price indexes or seasonal adjustments are applied...it's very difficult to see how the BEA comes up with their numbers.

Frankly I believe they should have data/spreadsheets that anyone with high school mathematics can follow, but such is job security or something.

The post is now corrected. I try to be accurate on these overviews so if there are any other errors or errors on this site generally, I would appreciate an email through the contact form in order to make corrections.

although it amplifies the power China has, to control supply of rare Earth minerals.