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From Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Moore will once again go into uncharted territory. With both humor and outrage this explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their...
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"Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the sources of the economic crisis to the 1970's, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown"
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Documentary traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of media, academia, pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized...
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"The amazing life story of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman can be complete and effectively told only when integrated with stories of the impact of his ideas here in the United States and throughout the world. No one person in the 20th century had such an impact on economic thinking worldwide, as has Milton Friedman. Yet his is a most unlikely story that he credits, in large measure, to "luck."
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Documents Barack Obama's history-making road to the White House as the nation's first African-American president. Follows the former Senator from his decision to throw his hat in the ring to his historic election, and inauguration. Includes interviews, candid moments with his wife Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, plus his senior campaign staff, his supporters, aids, and the media.
10) The warning
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Examines the derivative securities market during the 1990s and explores early warnings of the financial crisis of 2008. Uncovers an intense battle between high-ranking members of the Clinton administration versus Brooksley Born who tried to sound the alarm about the need to regulate the emerging, highly complex, and lucrative derivatives markets. Examines Alan Greenspan's economic policies.
11) House of cards
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Presents first-person accounts of the economic crisis from Wall Street insiders, lenders, homeowners, and former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan. Documents the chronology of the buildup and collapse of the U.S. housing market that triggered a worldwide economic meltdown.
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This series explores our changing economic world: the clash between governments and the marketplace, the debate over the impact of globalization, and the forces shaping our future economy. Episode three tracks the global economy through the 1990s to the present. The focus is on the impact of free trade, global contagion, and the policies of the Clinton and Bush Administrations.
14) A century of war
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Looks at factors contributing to the growing decline in the U.S. economy: decreased investment in infrastructure, increased investment in defense industries, ongoing military intervention, globaliztion and the offshoring of industry.
16) Cliffhanger
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Examines the events leading up to the U.S. fiscal crisis of 2013, in which Congressional Republicans, in holding to strict ideological lines, threatened the Obama administration with a "fiscal cliff" that entailed a debt ceiling and sequestration. Discusses the deal made between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, and the resulting conflict between Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
17) Four horsemen
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Rather than level blame for the global financial crisis of 2008 and the growing disparity in wealth on individual leaders, organizations, or incidents, Four horsemen raises questions into the validity of the modern economic system as a whole and presents solutions to the problem.
18) Four horsemen
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The Four Horsemen lifts the lid on how the world really works.
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This series explores our changing economic world: the clash between governments and the marketplace, the debate over the impact of globalization, and the forces shaping our future economy. Episode one considers the idea of government control in 20th century world economies, focusing on the economic theories presented by John Maynard Keynes and Freidrich Von Hayek.
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