Here is the link to the Boston PBS WGBY replay of the Chris Martenson Mini-Crash Course which originally aired on 2/10/09. Watch Martenson in action as a professor teaching a class in the live-studio of WGBY. He describes his background, some things going on around him that didn't make sense, why he constructed the Crash Course series of videos, and teaches a great mini-course on the economy.
If you haven't yet had the time to watch the series of Chris Martenson Crash Course videos, perhaps this 38 minute mini-course will be the thing that moves everyone to watch the complete course.
Link to the PBS page, scroll down more than half way past other programs until you see 'The Crash Course' and Martenson's picture.
http://www.wgby.org/podcasts/index.html P.S. Here is the link for the complete series for the Chris Martenson Crash Course videos which provide a baseline understanding of the economy, creation of money, debt, bubbles, energy, environment. This is a series of 20 video chapters, each video is between 3 and 20 minutes in length, meaning that all 20 chapters should take about 3.5 hours, but they need not be watched all at the same time. Try appx an hour a day for 3 days.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse