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In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts
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N DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex." -- indebtwetrust.com
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"Released: 2006 (Nantucket Film Festival)Director: Danny Schechter*****Part of the reason In Debt We Trust works as well as it does is the ability of the audience to understand the problem of credit card debt in their own terms. Whereas a nearly mythical organization called Al-Qaeda and people the general movie goer has never met were the focus of Farenheit 9/11, this is a much more accessible problem: interest rates, credit scores, foreclosure, bankruptcy. This isn't something "some " [More]
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