Another week and another batch of fascinating video clips about bailouts, economic woes and other crisis-related matters. As to be expected, the good-news videos are in rather short supply. A number of the more interesting clips that have attracted my attention are shared below.

Some of my favourites included in this compilation are: “Peter Schiff uses analogies to describe crisis” (first one up) and “Dr Doom [Marc Faber] - Buffett’s approach to investing is dead” (further down). If you want to view only two of these clips, make sure to see these two.

Please post any interesting video links that you would like to share with the Investment Postcards community, in the comments section.

YouTube: Peter Schiff uses analogies to describe crisis “Ron

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There isn’t much to say here either than I said on Friday we would have a week long holiday lower volume each day rally. That came and passed like clockwork. I had no clue the gains would be so huge in such a short amount of time but in this market you get used to anything and everything.

About the only thing that never changes the past few months has been the news. The news has been downright extremely negative and the negativity has reached a point that it is effecting me and might be having a negative impact in my trading.

I am not used to being a professional investor with a paid website. I am not used to having others be in my trades and see the same thing I see. Now many of you can see exactly what I see and I wonder if that is dangerous or

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2 part series - Art Laffer, how sad to say your economic views only have a life of 9 months. Good to see Schiff get his dues even if the past 4-5 months has been rough on his patch of hideouts - outside of US Treasuries no one can find a place to make money on the long side in "buy and hold". I am more interested in the economic thesis since the stock market has rewarded no one... Unlike most, who chuckled snidely as he made his predictions in 06-07, I was taking furious notes :) [Sep 12: Peter Schiff on Fannie/Freddie] [Aug 3: Peter Schiff July 28 2008 on Glenn Beck] [Jun 2: US News & World Report -Peter Schiff's Worst Case Scenario] [Oct 2, 2007: Schiff - Housing Prices to Collapse] Speaking of Laffer, ...

Friday was indeed a very bullish session and the good news to some market players was that volume was higher on the NYSE and almost at the same level as it was on the Nasdaq from Thursday. The other good news to some was the fact that most of the indexes made up all the losses from the day before. This all seems bullish on the short term but I think it is wise to look at the big picture before jumping to any conclusions.

First off, I don’t want to poo-poo on the rally we had Friday as I will admit I am just happy to see more green with a pickup in volume. However, we have to be realistic and look at history as our guide for the now and future. If we study history we will see that the best bull markets do not start with a powerful

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When I worked for an investment bank during the dotcom boom, I recall in early 2000 publishing a bearish note on a leading European semiconductor company, which like all tech stocks was on a ludicrous earnings and revenue multiple. It was a top down, reality check piece of research, which asked a simple question: what future market share is the current valuation implicitly assuming? It turned out that even on the most bullish assumptions of consumer device growth, they would have to capture just about 100% of the market to remotely justify their market value, and in a competitive market that was never going to happen. We presented that note to some of the leading global investment institutions who held the stock, and with few exceptions, despite the compelling simplicity of the argument, they retained their bullish stance. Within weeks the Nasdaq crash had started, and within a couple ...

Why We Should Take a Solutions Approach to the Crisis and Look at Some Things DifferentlyBy Peter Schiff, President of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. Author of The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear MarketsI don't think we're going to see any light at the end of the tunnel until we have a clear, objective understanding of how we got into this mess in the first place. There is a tendency whenever major problems occur in the economy to place blame on external factors and to assume that the external factors can be prevented from causing similar problems in the future by expanding the government's regulatory powers. The problem I have with this kind of thinking is that it makes government bigger and more intrusive without ever getting at the root of the problem, which is usually the government ...

The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down (Little Books. Big Profits) by Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, is a very bearish book. After predicting the recent market drop, Schiff now makes a very strong case for a very long bear market lasting years, with high inflation, continuing collapse of real estate, and rising commodity prices thrown in. He gives advice on what you can do to prepare for this onslaught of bad news. His recommendations include gold and stocks of strong foreign companies. He also recommends trying to get debt free, especially the variable rate credit cards and mortgages. One of the most interesting chapters is 'A Decade of Frugality'.If you want a book that pulls no punches about the upcoming economic catastrophe, along ...

The election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president creates plenty of profit plays for investors in the New Year. By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report With his landslide election victory Tuesday - coupled with Democratic gains in the House of Representatives and in the Senate - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will have the ability to pursue more or less any policy he wants. For investors who have been trying to analyze the economic outlook for the New Year, the election of U.S. Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) provides a major piece of the forward-looking jigsaw puzzle that these analysts hope to assemble. That’s because the likely trends of the United States and other economies around the world - and the relative success of different sectors within those economies - depends crucially on who’s in the White House, what policies they have, and ...

I just can’t make up my mind:  Is Hank Paulson committing premeditated murder of the U.S. economy, or merely negligent homicide?

Constant readers know I’ve gone back and forth on this:  In September I figured the bailout bill smacked of making things up as he went along.  But on Monday I took note of the phone conversation he had two months before Washington Mutual collapsed, in which Paulson told WaMu’s CEO he ought to sell out to JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) because his company was in big trouble.

I guess it’s possible Paulson knew bad things were going down, but he still didn’t know what to do about it.  And this morning, the making-things-up-as-he’s-going-along thesis seems inescapable.  I mean, really: The bailout bill was predicated on buying up toxic, er, um “troubled” assets.  Then in the middle of the game it became a hybrid of buying up “troubled” assets

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Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. and disciple of Austrian School economics, says “a major, major crisis is coming,” thanks to the government’s attempts to ‘fix’ the economy with giant bailouts.

In fact, Schiff, a well-known dollar bear, says the result of the government bailout packages and an Obama administration will be the total destruction of the dollar.

Watch it below.