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Episode Three: The New Rules of the Game
Chapter 1: Prologue 6:14
  • Unforeseen risks
  • A single market no one controls
  • Title sequence
  • Who will rewrite the rules?

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Information: Episode Three: Overview; Information: About the Book; Information: Series Credits
Chapter 2: Global Idea 3:52
  • 1992: America's economy adrift
  • Governor Clinton campaigns
  • Wall Street's agenda
  • A meeting of minds

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Essay: Country Report: USA, 1992; Information: The Maastricht Treaty 1991; Country Report: West Germany, 1991; Country Report: East Germany, 1991; Country Report: France, 1991; Country Report: Italy, 1991; Country Report: Japan, 1989; Interview: Robert Rubin
Chapter 3: NAFTA: The First Test 5:28
  • Trade becomes the issue
  • That giant sucking sound
  • Clinton shifts his ground
  • Labor betrayed?

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Country Report: USA, 1992; Information: NAFTA defined; Interview: NAFTA and Clinton's campaign; Interview: Robert Rubin; Interview: Thea Lee; Interview: Newt Gingrich; Interview: Gephardt on NAFTA
Chapter 4: Crossing Borders 3:30
  • Investment pours into Mexico
  • An American boom
  • Who wins; who loses?
  • The balance of bargaining power

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Country Report: Mexico, 1993; Interview: Jorge Castaneda; Interview: Vicente Fox; Interview: Thea Lee; Interview: Laura Tyson; Interview: Newt Gingrich; Interview: Lawrence Summers; Country Report: USA, 2000<; Country Report: Mexico, 2000; Country Report: Canada, 2000
Chapter 5: The Global Market 3:48
  • Trade goes invisible
  • Markets are us
  • French culture at risk
  • Pensions must go global

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Essay: The Global Currency Market; Information: Pension Funds; Country Report: The French Economy; Key Events: Investing overseas: 1990-2000
Chapter 6: Emerging Market Hunters 5:01
  • Capturing returns
  • Opening borders
  • No need to be nice
  • Thwarting Marx's predictions

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Interview: Mark Mobius; Interview: Laura Tyson; Interview: Robert Rubin; Interview: Lawrence Summers; Interview: Newt Gingrich; Interview: Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad; Country Report: Poland, 1990; Country Report: East Germany, 1990; Country Report: Czech Republic, 1990; Country Report: India, 1990; Country Report: Russia, 1992
Chapter 7: Averting a Meltdown: 1994 4:56
  • Assassinations and revolt
  • Capital gets nervous
  • Fishing in the Caribbean
  • Moral risk in Mexico

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Chapter 8: The Global Village 6:47
  • Communication explodes
  • A borderless world
  • Venture's capital
  • Talent flows, too

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Interview: Narayana Murthy; Interview: David Lee
Chapter 9: China and the Tigers 5:35
  • David Lee goes home
  • China's free-trade zones
  • Immigration's next wave
  • Singapore's "miracle"

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Chapter 10: The Japanese Paradox 3:01
  • Invincibility evaporates
  • Economic contradictions
  • A mountain of bad debt
  • Killing off new ideas

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Country Report: Japan, 1992; Interview: Eisuke Sakakibara
Chapter 11: Global Contagion Begins 7:55
  • Begging us to borrow
  • Flaws in the system
  • Building the bubble
  • Shorting the baht

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Chapter 12: Contagion Engulfs Asia 7:13
  • America doesn't intervene
  • Indonesia implodes
  • Economic colonialism?
  • Korea at the brink

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Chapter 13: Russia Defaults 2:31
  • Markets in denial
  • Countries do go broke
  • Russia defaults
  • Panic in action

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Chapter 14: The Crisis Reaches America 7:07
  • Long Term Capital Management
  • Brazil at risk
  • Is it over yet?
  • Thailand after the fall

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Chapter 15: The Global Debate 2:49
  • New risks, new requirements
  • Easier said than done
  • A new locus for rebellion
  • Anti-globalization is born

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Chapter 16: The Battle Joined 5:08
  • The streets of Seattle
  • A global labor contradiction
  • Invisible beneficiaries
  • A free-trade double standard?

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Chapter 17: Failure at the Summit 4:58
  • Clinton in a corner
  • Not seeing eye to eye
  • Getting off foreign aid
  • The World Bank under attack

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Chapter 18: The Global Divide 2:33
  • Poverty no one can ignore
  • Can a one-world market help?
  • Earning legitimacy
  • Why is it growing worse?

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Chapter 19: Capitalism Redefined 7:00
  • A tool for the poor to prosper
  • What's missing in Peru
  • Property, law, and trust
  • On the slopes of Kilimanjaro

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Chapter 20: The Bottom End of Globalism 4:46
  • The moral problem
  • Snake kids
  • Oliver Twist has a television
  • Clinton's farewell

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