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Backlight's Future Affairs
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Backlight's Future Affairs

2009 · 15 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The financial crisis of 2008 wrecked confidence in the old economic order, and this VPRO Backlight episode asks what replaces it. The program opens with Barack Obama's line to a shaken public, 'I have one word for you: tomorrow,' and uses it as a hinge into a wider argument about whether his administration and the European Union can actually rebuild trust in markets after Wall Street's collapse spilled onto Main Street. Economists and policy thinkers appear on camera to weigh competing models for what comes next, from renewed state intervention to entirely new financial architectures, while the film keeps returning to a blunter question underneath the theory: will growth resume, and will the promises made in the crisis's aftermath hold. Real-world examples anchor the discussion rather than abstract forecasting, tracking how the crash reshaped both American and European policy debates in real time. Broadcast by VPRO in January 2009, the film captures that specific moment of uncertainty before anyone knew how the recovery, or the next model, would actually look.