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Tales from the Global Economy

Tales from the Global Economy

2001•Documentary
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Four-part series unearthing the links between daily life and the workings of the global economy.

Jeremy Newson · Director

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateAug 26, 2001

Episodes

E1

The Cappuccino Trail

In the UK, a cup of coffee could cost you £3, yet the farmers who grow the raw green coffee beans might earn less than a penny a cup. The quest for the perfect cappuccino links the poor farmers of Peru and the global weather effect to Wall Street trading pits and fickle consumer tastes.

Aug 26, 2001

E2

Greenspan Alert!

Alan Greenspan is possibly the most powerful man in the world. He is chairman of the US Federal Reserve and, as such, is responsible for revealing the new US interest rate every eight weeks. Tonight's programme explores Greenspan's mythology and looks at how the world hangs on his every word.

Sep 2, 2001

E3

Where's Our Money?

Choreographers Jan and Ken Smith have poured their life savings into a pension fund, but like most of us they have no idea where their money has gone, or what it is doing - good or bad. This programme follows an amazing trail of investment from London to the four corners of the world where their money, unbeknown to them, is being invested in a curious and sometimes contradictory range of enterprises.

Sep 9, 2001

E4

Santa: Supply and Demand

How Santa Claus has become the patron saint of supply and demand and the key to a billion dollar worldwide industry.

Sep 16, 2001

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