Watch the Economic Meltdown Online

The scariest thing to watch this Halloween isn’t in theaters — it’s in the stock market. It’s down! It’s up! It’s down! My 401k! Aaaaaaaaagghhh! We can’t help you manage your money, but we can help all those obsessive compulsives get up-to-the minute reports on the global-thermo-nuclear markets and economies.

When you think of business news, the first name that springs to mind is probably CNBC. And if we were talking oldteevee, that would be your best bet. But this is NewTeeVee, and for online video, CNBC kinda blows. There’s no live feed, just regularly updated videos (that are not embeddable). On the plus side CNBC does offer video news covering the U.S., Europe and Asia.

CNBC’s rival FOX Business News is only a little better. They don’t offer live video either, but they do allow embeds of their video updates.

MarketWatch offers video updates and analysis as well, but it’s organizational system is only by topics, and not by “latest,” so it’s hard to tell what’s really new news. TheStreet.com also has its own micro-news bits, but the shows are a little lackluster (unless you’re a Jim Cramer fan).

If video updates just won’t do, head over to Bloomberg and click on the Live TV button to watch the business channel live (though it was a bit wonky when I tried it out).

Wondering if the rest of the world is in as big a mess as we are here in the U.S.? Skip across the pond to check out videos with a more global perspective from Sky News and the BBC.

If you can’t wrap your head around the sheer globalness of the problem and would prefer something a bit more personal (i.e. what’s in this financial crisis for me?), then head over to personal finance site Motley Fool for its video shows on topics like “What the Fed Cut Means to You” and “Buffet Buys, Should You?”

Hopefully the economic nightmare of this Halloween season will give way to a more bountiful November and Thanksgiving. Tune in to find out.