Economics - The Party's Over - How the West Went Bust - Episode 01

Robert Peston presents a two-part analysis of the Wests financial crisis, beginning by examining how its origins can be traced to decisions made by the governments of Britain, China and the USA during the early 1980s. He canvasses the opinions of bankers, politicians and economists, and argues that the boom period that occurred before the crash of the late 2000s was based on an illusion that has left the global economy dangerously unbalanced.