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Why rely only on text books?  Get it straight from the horse's mouth ;-)  These tend to be much more interesting than typical text coverage.  These often are more timely than publications from journals and easier for undergraduates to understand.  I highly recommend using them in class!

I understand that some of you disagree with the views presented in some of these interviews and speeches, however, the views expressed in the interviews and speeches are the opinions of the presenters and we should all respect their views. 

FinanceProfessor Exclusive interviews

Robert Bruner on teaching finance .  VERY good!
Cliff Smith - On Enron, how he picks his research topics, teaching, and other things
Middle Eastern Economists- On the financial and economics of the Middle East and the war's impact
Betty Simkins, Mark Flannery, and Sheridan Titman -On FMA Online

Good Speeches for class room use

Recent:

Fed Governor Gramlich on social security amd medicare reform--April 21, 2005
Greenspan on Energy markets--April 2005 
Greenspan Globalization (again)  March 10, 2005

Archived:

• Fed Governor Ben Bernanke on the realtionship between monetary policy and the stock market
• Alan Greenspan on  benefits of globalization,
• A look at Globalization through the eyes of the central bank of Lebanon
• Fed Govenor Roger Ferguson on the Fed's repsonse to events of 911 .
• A roundtable of FDIC insurance premiums , including history. VERY good!

Other really good speeches Fed Officials

 Alan Greenspan on technology's impact on the economy
                          risk measurement  
                          derivatives . 
                          Fed's role in the Long Term Capital Management debacle .
                          New Economy and challenges to education
                          benefits of globalization .
                          Corporate Governance
                          The Reagan Economic legacy
                          Wealth of nations revisited

Fed Governor Ben Bernanke on the realtionship between monetary policy and the stock market
                                              Monetary policy in Japan  
                                              Why Deflation is possible and why it would be a problem for global economy

Fed Governor Susan Bies on international corporate governance
                       the Role of Counsel (lawyers) in corporate governance

 Laurence Meyer on derivative risks in the financial system.
                            independence of Monetary policy

Other Great Interviews from other sites

William Sharpe on CAPM Highly recommended!
Eugene Fama on CAPM, Market Efficiency, and Tennis! Highly recommended!
Henry Kaufman -Former Guru on changing market and role of Fed

The Intelligent Investor from UK has a good collection of interviews mainly with Fund Managers

 
Aurthor Murton (FDIC director) on Technology and Banking
 Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson:  On the Fed and monetary policy
                                                           Productivity and the Economy

 Donna Tanuoe (former FDIC Chairperson) on bank accounting and loan loss reserves .  (the latter parts are more interesting).
 Edward Gramlich on Social Security
 Susan Philips looks back on the Crash of 1987 ten years later .

Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on the importance of transactions costs .
                                             on the importance of accounting and its future.

John Morrissey of the SEC on international accounting standards

Melissa  Robertson of the SEC on Insider Trading . Why it should be illegal.

Milken-sponsored Nobel Roundtable with Arrow, Becker, Klein, and others.  Sometimes gets off on tangents but very interesting.  More economics than finance.

George Soros on the 1997 Asian Crisis.
                       on Global Capitalism : its plusses and minuses 

David Warren on the future of the Bond Market
More on the future of the the bond market
 

Many more speeches from the Board of Governors of the FED.
Many more speeches from the FDIC
Speeches on international Finance from the IIF (The Institute of International Finance).  In PDF format.  Several are very interesting.