Meltdown is a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world. The show begins with the 2008 crash that pushed 30 million people into unemployment, brought countries to the edge of insolvency and turned the clock back to 1929.
But how did it all go so wrong? Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place. Also, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced "light touch regulation" - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.
Meltdown moves on to examine the epidemic of fear that caused the world's banks to stop lending and how the people began their fight back. Finally, it asks how the world can prepare for the next crisis even as it recognises that this one is far from over.
We hear about the sheikh who says the crash never happened; a Wall Street king charged with fraud; a congresswoman who wants to jail the bankers; and the world leaders who want a re-think of capitalism.
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Humorná satira dánského komika Jonatana Spanga, která si skrze role spolupracujících policistů, Dána a Švédky, dělá legraci z absurdní švédské politické korektnosti, by neměla zapadnout.
Poznámka: kolem 02:03, když se baví o pohlaví pachatele, tak jde o slovní hrátku se zájmeny. Ve Švédštině existuje slovo han (on) pro muže a hon (ona) pro ženy a detektivka užívá výrazu "hen", tedy novotvar vzniklý v 60. letech označující "genderovou neutralitu", nekonkrétní nebo neznámé pohlaví. Překlad v této části byl proto upraven, aby to dávalo smysl v češtině.