As much as Congress and the Bush Administration want Americans to believe that Washington's passage of a $700 billion bad asset buy-up plan will help, Asian and European stock markets aren't buying it -- they plunged Monday fearing a global crash. Wall Street followed.

What have we learned in recent weeks about our economy and the power of the voter? Denis Kucinich, who steadfastly opposed the bail out said of the second vote, “This is an outrage. This was democracy’s Black Friday.” The bill included more than $100 billion in corporate and personal tax breaks. But Nancy Pelosi called it critical for average Americans. Both Obama and McCain voted for it.

On GRITtv we look at the financial crisis and presidential politics--why this time the voters didn’t win--with Arun Gupta, an editor and writer for the Indypendent, Kai Wright, a columnist for TheRoot.com,Robert Johnson, former managing director of Soros Funds Management and former chief economist of the Senate Banking Committee, and Mark Winston Griffith a fellow at the Drum Major Institute.