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Boom and Crash: How Speculation Leads to Chaos
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Boom and Crash: How Speculation Leads to Chaos

2021-02-02 · 82 min · ★ 6.0

Documentary

Bread, water, fuel: for a growing proportion of the world's population, particularly in Latin America, Asia and Africa, dizzying price increases are making these basic necessities increasingly unaffordable. With wars and climate change, the impossibility of access to the minimum subsistence level is now one of the main causes of migration on the planet and the aggravating factor of armed conflicts. These sharp increases in the cost of living often originate in new forms of speculation on raw materials, which create worldwide price movements totally disconnected from local markets, a devastating "butterfly effect".

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Directors
Rupert Russell
Production companies
ARTE, SVT, SWR, Docsville Studios
Countries
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden
Status
Released

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Rupert RussellSelf
Douglas BlushDouglas BlushSelf
Rana ForooharSelf
Michael MastersSelf
Joseph StiglitzJoseph StiglitzSelf
Boris ZwetkowSelf
Jeffrey SachsJeffrey SachsSelf
Marine Le PenMarine Le PenSelf (archive footage)
David CameronDavid CameronSelf (archive footage)
Nigel FarageNigel FarageSelf (archive footage)
Vladimir PutinVladimir PutinSelf (archive footage)
Muammar GaddafiMuammar GaddafiSelf (archive footage)
Bill ClintonBill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
Geert WildersGeert WildersSelf (archive footage)
Melania TrumpMelania TrumpSelf (archive footage)
Donald TrumpDonald TrumpSelf (archive footage)

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