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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Tube Notes: 'Shark Tank,' 'Frontline'


By Mike Hughes
MikeHughes.tv

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEES

�SHARK TANK� SEASON-FINALE, 7 P.M., ABC

Spare and simple, this show has drawn viewers because of its real-life stakes. Entrepreneurs bring ideas to five wealthy investors, who may or may not provide money.
Tonight, we meet a very likable couple, thinking small. These people make their �Mr. Poncho� � a covering for a music-player, complete with a place to wrap the earphone cord � in their apartment.
We also meet a rather unlikable duo, thinking big. They expect millions from a Web site for college sports recruiters.
Other ideas cause a stir, from personalized bobble heads to a fake golf club that's a discreet (well, semi-discreet) urinal on the fairway. Ideas and schemes bounce around in an entertaining hour.

�FRONTLINE: THE WARNING,� 9 P.M., PBS

Alan Greenspan's strongest influence was Ayn Rand, the author who once explained: �I am for an absolute laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.�
That was odd because Greenspan's job � for Republican presidents and Bill Clinton � was to regulate the economy. He wanted to let it heal itself; Brooksley Born disagreed.
As head of the Commmodity Futures Trading Commission, she was wary of derivatives. �My staff began to say how big this was,� she says here �and how little information they had about it.�
Born's powers were taken away. Now � after the troubles she'd warned of � here's an interesting look.

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