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2.FRONTLINE: the card game (www.pbs.org)
Controlling debt isn't only about managing money, it's also about knowing how to play the game.
Despite passage of the May 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act ("The Credit CARD Act"), the days of tricks and traps by banks and other financial institutions are far from over.
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Hook Line and Sunk - Iceland (www.youtube.com)Dubbed the 'New Vikings', Iceland's bankers had taken the world by storm. But a year ago their banks collapsed overnight, leaving the country to face economic chaos. Have the lessons been learnt?
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Ten Trillion and Counting: Watch the full program | PBS (www.pbs.org)A look at how the federal government's efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the United States national debt. Ten Trillion and Counting examines how this debt will constrain and challenge the new Obama administration, and on the growing chorus on both sides of the aisle that without fiscal reform, the United States government may face a debt crisis of its own which makes the current financial situation pale in comparison.
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Argentina's Economic Collapse (www.youtube.com)Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina's assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition.
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6.The Crisis of Credit Visualized (crisisofcredit.com)
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.
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"Many Americans still don't understand what has happened to the economy," FRONTLINE producer/director Michael Kirk says. "How did it all go so bad so quickly? Who is responsible? How effective has the response from Washington and Wall Street been? Those are the questions at the heart of Inside the Meltdown."
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8.Google Documentary (video.google.com)
A look inside Google, The Machine.
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9.BBC NEWS | Business | Inside a frozen pizza factory (news.bbc.co.uk)
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The Desert Capitalists - Part One (www.bbc.co.uk)Mukul Devichand finds out how the Marwari trading caste from India's western deserts has become a pre-eminent global economic and political force - from Bombay to Paris to London.
When Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, acquired Arcelor steel and sent shivers down the spine of France's ruling class, it was only the latest chapter in the onward march of his tiny community.
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The Desert Capitalists - Part Two (www.bbc.co.uk)Today, Marwaris make up a phenomenally successful business community with influence on governments from India's Bharatiya Janata Party to New Labour in the UK.
Prominent Marwari families include the Birlas - whose multinational firm operates in 20 countries - and the Bajaj Autos dynasty.
The ancestors of today's business executives left their dusty Rajasthan desert homeland 300 years ago to sell paper and cloth on market stalls in Calcutta.
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Mostgage Mess - PBS (video.google.com)Bill Moyers Journal travels to ground zero of the mortgage meltdown — Cleveland, Ohio
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