Episode
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Director(s):
MEURICE (JEAN MICHEL)
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Producer(s):
ARTE GEIE, ZADIG PRODUCTIONS
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2012
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET
The conquest of the world by Finance : it is the story of the dismantling of the restrictions, from 1980 to 2000, and the new instruments placed in the hands of the financiers.
The financial sphere created a bubble, which accentuated differences in wealth. In 1987, a first Wall Street crisis did not raise any serious alert, and when the Berlin Wall fell, capitalism surrendered itself to a hitherto contained state of inebriation. In 2007, the subprime affair plunged the world economy into a severe crisis, which is not yet over. Depreciated assets, bankrupt banks, lack of liquidity: "The entire economy is wrecked", denounced Georges Soros.
With Wolfgang Schäuble (German Minister of Finance) / Frédéric Lordon (economist, ATTAC movement) / Christine Lagarde (Managing Director of the IMF - former French Minister of Finance) / Michel Pébereau (former CEO of BNP-Paribas) / Maurice Lippens (former Chairman of Fortis) / Nicolas Veron (economist with the Bruegel Think Tank) / Théodore Margellos (trader and wealth manager) / Nicole El Karaoui (Ecole Polytechnique, France) / Martin Hellwig (Max Plank Institute - Chair, Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board) / Gunther Capelle-Blancard (Deputy-Director of the CEPII)