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In this irreverent and thought-provoking look at Japanese society, reporter Anita Rani travels across the country to investigate how a nation copes when there are simply too many people living to a ripe old age and too few having children. What is the effect on the economy with a massive pension and welfare bill falling on a shrinking workforce? And what does the fate of this creaking population mean for the rest of the world? While the global population...
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It is an age-old question about what is often called the world's oldest profession. The notion of paying for sex can encompass an incredibly broad range of ideas, from patrons of child prostitutes in Thai brothels to rich Wall Street executives who support their girlfriends in graduate school. But is it morally and ethically wrong-and should it be legally wrong-to pay for sex?
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There can be no society without work. Yet as civilizations prosper and grow, labor historically is shifted onto the less privileged, while the elite either scorn work or only participate in certain types, creating hierarchies and inequalities. This program examines work from the early egalitarian hunter/gatherer and agrarian societies to the modern world-a world of multinationals and child slavery, of leisure and hard labor. Noted anthropologists,...
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This program sums up the evolution of commerce, from barter, to coinage, to today's stock market. Economist Professor Grantham, of McGill University, discusses how writing and accounting facilitated trade and gave rise to a merchant class in the ancient world, and hence the spread of classical civilization in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, culminating in the Roman Empire. The importance of the spice and silk trades is also discussed, along with...
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Understanding how and why we all make financial mistakes is the best way to keep them from happening. This ABC News report reviews the top five financial mistakes people make. Farnoosh Torabi of Yahoo's Financially Fit offers advice on avoiding these financially draining errors.
7) Mayday!
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Ryanair were the pioneers of low cost flying, taking on the old state-sponsored monoliths of aviation through aggressive cost-cutting and sharp advertising, bringing easy air travel to a new demographic. But is their dramatic success story too good to be true? This documentary features testimonies from Ryanair pilots as they speak out about the cost-cutting measures endangering lives. From flying with too little fuel to pilots unfit to fly, they say...
8) Buffer Zone
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After the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami killed 40,000 and left half a million homeless, aid agencies rushed to the rescue of Sri Lanka. Inland resettlement, funded with hundreds of millions raised in Western countries, was a welcome solution for a country living in fear of another seismic sea wave. Ten years on, cracks are appearing in the aid effort. What long term problems has this wave of humanitarian support washed up on the shores of Sri Lanka?
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French economist Thomas Piketty and Canadian activist Naomi Klein are intellectual super stars who conquer the world with their ideas. They inspire and mobilize millions of people all over the globe. Not only by pinpointing the big problems and their solutions, but also by talking to politicians, meeting with social movements, and doing hundreds of TV interviews that are then shared on a massive scale via social media. With his book Capital in the...
11) Darknets
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The Silk Road was a billion dollar drugs marketplace on the darknet, run by a mastermind called Dread Pirate Roberts. Then, in October 2013, the site was closed down by the FBI and its alleged founder arrested in San Francisco. Ben Hammersley explores whether the young man who now awaits trial -Ross Ulbricht- really is Dread Pirate Roberts, and finds out what impact alter egos, darknets and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have on the modern world.
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We are on the brink of a technological revolution. Machines and artificial intelligence are beginning to replace jobs like never before. This program looks at the workplaces already using this new technology and asks whether we should feel threatened by it, or whether it will benefit all of us. Are we ready for one of the biggest changes the world of work has ever seen?
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This food-for-thought film scrutinizes the insatiable appetite of the small, but mighty, circle of global food producers. Corporate globalization threatens the livelihoods of small farmers in the U.S. and depletes natural resources in developing countries. As greed dominates the world stage, its impact on the planet is becoming undeniably clear; free trade is a route to worldwide hunger despite an overabundance of food.
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Where did my last paycheck go? How can I save when I barely make it through the month? Why is my paycheck less than I expected? Many people enter the job market expecting their paychecks to bring them freedom and unlimited new possessions. In reality, what they find is an inability to control their finances and shock over the speed at which the paycheck disappears. This informative program shows viewers that the ability to control their finances influences...
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Dreams are free, but achieving them takes planning, hard work, and money. Give your students a head start on the money part by showing them how to manage their finances with this video filled with basic money management tips. Topics include the difference between gross pay and net pay, why compound interest is better than simple interest, reading the fine print on the back of credit card applications, transactions that can be done through online banking,...
16) Positive credit
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Looking for a car? Want to go to college? Want to start your own business? Are all of these ideas pipe dreams? Only until they come true. To make them come true, you need to know something about handling finances. Positive Credit is an information-packed program that teaches viewers how to make a budget, what savings and assets are, how to use credit, how to become eligible for credit, the ins and outs of credit ratings, and how to accept financial...
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The lucrative teen market is coveted by advertisers, making it all the more important for young people to know how to make wise buying decisions. In this program Maggie and Ethan go online to shop for an MP3 player while applying the four steps consumers should consider when shopping: they set a goal, list their resources, shop carefully, and then evaluate their purchase. The teens also learn four things to keep in mind when shopping online, four...
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In the current economic downturn, much attention has been paid to the volatile stock market and efforts to overhaul financial regulations. But there's another market out there that some say is even riskier for potential investors: the art market. Does a lack of oversight permit art dealers to manipulate prices? Or is the value of art not determined by money? Is the art market less ethical than Wall Street?