The Day the Dollar Falls - Blacklight - EN Subtitled

What does top model Gisele Bⁿndchen and rapper Jay-Z in common with professional investors such as Jim Rogers and politicians in Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and China? Doubts concerning the Dollar and a preference for the Euro! Why? A Advancing vision like the drama entitled: The Day that the Dollar Falls.



Do we live on a bubble? Is it possible for the heavily indebted American economy to collapse and take all of us down in a free fall with it? Have the days of the dollar as a world currency been counted? Is it really unimaginable that we will see the time of the Great Depression in 1929 repeating itself?



VPRO Backlight and Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad present this 'what if' scenario. What if the dollar collapses? Fiction meets facts in this 24 hour scenario. At 9AM CET a Singapore trader is ordered to sell a large amount of dollars, which sends off the enormous downfall of the dollar. This film shows the results for the world economy every following hour. It ends in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), where the only currency accepted by a taxi driver is sigarettes. An scene which comes closer and closer...





Latest Euro to Dollar rate: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURUSD=X