I Love $

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by Johan van der Keuken

Netherlands Documentary 1986 2:20 Original version with French subtitles

I Love $, Johan van der Keuken © DR

Presentation

New York, Geneva, Hong Kong and Amsterdam are major hubs of the world's economy. Great amounts of money circulate there, and whereas poverty is ubiquitous in the streets of New York, Geneva carefully protects its wealth behind impeccable facades. No one is unaffected by the myth of the all-powerful Dollar: the under-privileged struggle to survive talking about their unattainable dreams, while business, from the safe distance of their offices, lay down the tenets of their financial philosophy.