Who owns America? economic crisis in the United States

ARTE France. (Added Author). Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) (Added Author). Films Media Group (Added Author).

Summary: The United States, the world's strongest economic power, is also the world's largest debtor nation. Will America's ever-increasing trade imbalance and economic deficit trigger a global economic calamity? This program travels from East Coast to West via the Rust Belt to check the financial pulse of the nation - and to capture in images the reality of an economic system spinning out of control. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, economists Paul Krugman and Mark Brenner, and Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff as well as students buried in debt and skilled laborers who have lost their pensions give their points of view on topics such as the pernicious use of government debt to pay for tax cuts; the

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (58 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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electronic resource (video)
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2009], c2007.

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Formatted Contents Note:	Foreign Government Invest in America (4:10) -- Economic Woes (3:53) -- Economy and Credit (3:46) -- Value of Credit (2:35) -- China: Lender and Manufacturer (3:25) -- Automobile Manufacturing Goes Lean: Jobs Lost (4:36) -- Importance of Market Value of Stock (3:46) -- American Auto Makers: Failure to Innovate (4:44) -- America: The Wal-Mart Economy (3:14) -- Corporate Greed (5:35) -- Money: A Threat to America (4:10) -- Global Market: Where Does the Money Come From? (2:53) -- American Deficit: Two Outcomes (3:14) -- Job Fulfillment (5:42)
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Language Note:	Portions in French with English subtitles.
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