OVERDOSE: The Next Financial Crisis
Winner - Best Documentary - San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
Bring on the debt.
Documentary film starring Gerald Celente, Peter Schiff, David Walker, Vernon Smith, Karen Horn, and Robert Van Order.
In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what if the solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the crisis? Overdose is the story of the greatest economic crisis of our age, the one that awaits us.
When the world's financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system. "The solution is the problem, that's why we had a problem in the first place." For Economics Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, the Catch 22 is self-evident. But interest rates have been at rock bottom for years, and governments are running out of fuel to feed the economy. "The governments can save the banks, but who can save the governments?"
The storm that would rock the world, began brewing in the US as the housing bubble exploded. "Want that vacation? Wanna buy some new clothes? Use your house as a piggie bank!" Why earn money to pay for your home when you can make money just living in it? With the government covering all losses, you'd have been a fool not to borrow.
The years of growth had been a continuous party. But when the punchbowl ran dry, instead of letting investors go home to nurse their hangovers as usual, the Federal Reserve just filled it up again with phoney money. For analyst Peter Schiff, the consequence of the spending binge was crystal clear: "we're in so much trouble now because we got drunk on all that Fed alcohol." Yet along with other worried experts, he was mocked and derided during the boom.
Governments promised decisive action, the biggest financial stimulus packages in history, gargantuan bailouts: but what crazed logic is this, propping up debt with...more debt?
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Dec 11, 2012 at 4:44 PM
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