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Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class shift the benefits of the economy to the very top, while saddling us with greater debt and tearing new holes in the safety net? In this edition of Moyers and Company, Bill Moyers talks with former Citigroup Chairman John Reed and former Senator Byron Dorgan to explore a momentous instance: how the mid-90's...
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While China is an economic superpower, its cheap-labor advantage is ending; its air and water are polluted; and its society is fractured by rich and poor. How can China achieve its goal of becoming a "moderately well off society" in a world of turbulent markets and a society of social disparities?
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Princes of the Yen reveals how post-war Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda of powerful interest groups, while citizens were kept in the dark. Based on a book by Professor Richard Werner, the film uncovers how the Bank of Japan pumped up and then crashed the Japanese economy. The aim was to induce change in the Japanese financial system, transforming it from a wartime economy dealing in consumer goods into a U.S.-style free market...
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Germany's first female Chancellor Angela Merkel rose from humble roots to become the most powerful woman in the world. This fascinating portrait reveals how her astonishing ascent to power has been on her own terms-as a woman, a former East German, a research scientist and, as she sees it, a defender of Western democracy. The program recounts Germany's recent history as it shaped Angela Merkel's life story, speaking to people that were close to Merkel...
5) Dirty Money
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Today, much of the planet's population lives in a British-shaped world. How did this clutch of islands off the coast of Europe come to dominate the globe? The British presents the history of the British Isles from Stonehenge to World War Two using gripping drama reconstruction, the latest CG, time-lapse and aerial footage. "Dirty Money" covers the Great Fire of London, South Sea Bubble, British slave and prostitution trades, Irish colonial resistance,...
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For more than two years, Europe has teetered on the edge of an economic precipice-one of the factors that has pushed Britain back into recession. How exactly did Europe get itself into the current financial mess? Talking to historians, economists and politicians, BBC business editor Robert Peston takes a long view of the euro-from Churchill's vision of a United States of Europe to the bail-outs of Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. Britain, with its vast...
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This episode of the Green Interview features Amy Larkin, an award-winning entrepreneur, environmental activist, and author who works with corporate executives to create more sustainable enterprises. Larkin was the founding director of Greenpeace Solutions. She now has the consulting firm Nature Means Business and she's the author of the 2013 book Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy in which she issues a clarion call for...
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In the months before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. What has happened to Dr. King's vision of economic justice? In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander-experts in civil rights advocacy and litigation-to discuss just how far the U.S. has come as a country, why poor and working-class Americans have...
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China is booming economically. U.S. companies, including Motorola and Boeing, are employing thousands in new factories. However, Western economic investment has not translated into a Chinese acceptance of Western ideas concerning human rights-as evident in the Tiananmen Square massacre. This program discusses the progress that is being made. We meet a radio talk-show host who invites callers to grill government officials, and newspaper editors who...
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Includes the following films (whole or excerpts): Black and white / directors, I. Ivanov-Vano and L. Amalrik (1933) (3 min.) -- Mister Twister / story, S. Marshak ; director, Anatoly Karanovich (1963) (16 min.) -- Someone else's voice / director, I. Ivanov-Vano (1949) (10 min.) -- Ave Maria / script and direction, Ivan Ivanov-Vano ; director, V. Danilevich; (1972) (10 min.) -- Millionaire / directors, V. Bordzilovsky and Y. Prytkov (1963) (10 min.)...
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