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Ditching the Dollar: Is It Time for a Global Currency?
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Ditching the Dollar: Is It Time for a Global Currency?

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Mundell helped create the euro. But why stop at Europe, he wondered. In the aftermath of 2008’s global financial crisis, why not create a legal tender for the entire world? In this program, Mundell, Nobel Laure...

21st century turning points in U.S. history: Program 4. 2007-2009
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21st century turning points in U.S. history: Program 4. 2007-2009

The end of the decade of the 21st century was the best of times and the worst of times. Finally, America understood the consequences of global warming; a sea change occurred when it elected a Black president, but in the end, it faced disaster when t...

The Flaw: Markets, Money, Mortgages and the Great American Meltdown
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The Flaw: Markets, Money, Mortgages and the Great American Meltdown

In October 2008, a humbled Alan Greenspan admitted to the US Congress that he had been mistaken to put so much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and that he had failed to anticipate the self-destructive nature of wanton mortgage len...

Marx Reloaded
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Marx Reloaded

'Marx Reloaded' is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis. The recent crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 y...