The meltdown will be televised

Tonight at 9 p.m. on CBC TV marks the debut of a four-part series on the economic meltdown that started in 2008.  I'll be watching, for a few reasons: the subject is fascinating, I'm a huge fan of Terence McKenna's documentaries and, moreover,  one of the producers, the talented Michelle Gagnon, was with me at Massey College for the Canadian Journalism Fellowship in 2008-09, and I know how hard she's worked on this. 

Tune in if you can. Here's the blurb: 

Doc Zone has traveled the world - from Wall Street to Dubai to China - to investigate The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse. Meltdown is the story of the bankers who crashed the world, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed.

September 2008 launched an extraordinary chain of events:

• General Motors, the world’s largest company, went bust.
• Washington Mutual became the world’s largest bank failure.
• Lehman Brothers became the world’s largest bankruptcy ever:
• The damage quickly spread around the world, shattering global confidence in the fundamental structures of the international economy.

The CBC’s Terence McKenna takes viewers behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions, revealing the astonishing level of backstabbing and tension behind the scenes as the world came dangerously close to another Great Depression.

Comments

[Aongasha]

Don't worry it'll all be Harper's fault - if not him Mulroney's!