4366 minutes in category  Economy

China is the world’s factory, but does a dark secret lurk behind this apparent success story?

Documentary filmmaker and creator of the HBO show The Neistat Brothers Casey Neistat lives near Zuccotti Park. When he heard that is was cleared by the police, he quickly decided […]

How an epidemic of fear caused the world’s major banks to stop lending, triggering protests and industrial action.

There are at least 8.4 million child slaves in the world today. Nearly two million of these are forced to work as prostitutes, while almost half a million are child […]

Big Vinny was the face and voice of a successful used car business in small town Alameda. He sold and he sold and he sold and Californians drove away happy. […]

The Green Revolution swept across India in the 1960s and 1970s, changing it from a nation begging for food aid to a top cotton and grain producer. But ‘Green’ did […]

In the final episode of Meltdown, we hear about the sheikh who says the crash never happened; a Wall Street king charged with fraud; a congresswoman who wants to jail […]

The man who gave the world the Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad died on Wednesday. News of his passing spread globally on the very devices he had created.

As the toll of the financial crisis continues to mount, many are looking for its true causes – and finding a crime.

Activist Debby Chan takes on one of the world’s favourite brands in her fight for workers’ rights.

In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; […]

War is hell, but for Hollywood it has been a Godsend, providing the perfect dramatic setting against which courageous heroes win the hearts and minds of the movie going public.

At the beginning of this year, the Cuban government took a dramatic step away from its socialist policies of the past to break new ground: it began privatising its economy […]


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