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“Addicted to Money” screening this Thursday at 8.35pm on ABC1
Produced by Electric Pictures, Addicted to Money is a three-part series for anyone who wants to know how the financial crisis came about, what it means for us now, and what we can do to create a sustainable economy. The first episode 'Who Killed the Economy?' will screen on Thursday November 5 at 8.35pm ABC1.
Addicted to Money will screen over the next three Thursdays with the host David McWilliams, a young economist who talks just as candidly to the most influential and powerful players in the global economy as he does to ordinary people.
In the first episode, David McWilliams establishes that we have not just been living through a global recession, but what amounts to a coordinated economic crime. The banks were not only in control, but also out of control. The financial industry established what was effectively a drug syndicate, pushing the most dangerous addiction of all, easy credit. "When even the suburban bank manager has become a drug pusher, things are seriously unhinged," says McWilliams.
Addicted to Money is produced by Electric Pictures and made with the backing of ABC TV, RTE (Ireland), S4C (UK), Screen Australia and ScreenWest.
The Addicted to Money crew travelled over 100,000 kilometres to twenty different locations around the world in an action packed 12 weeks to create this series. Along the way they visited diverse places, from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to the tops of ancient Mayan ruins in Honduras, from nuclear reactors in China to monster trucks on Icelandic glaciers.
