A documentary series by Anthony Sampson.
5: The High Cost of Debt
The 1980s was the decade of debt, from credit card addicts to the biggest debtor in history, the United States. But does debt really matter if the day of reckoning can be indefinitely postponed?
Anthony Sampson explores the remarkably candid stories of four debtors - a young
American couple caught up in a credit card crisis; the former Secretary of the US Treasury who went bankrupt to the tune of$50 million; the President of Argentina, whose country owes more than$60 billion to the world's banks; and the biggest debtor of them all, the USA.
Film editor KATE O'NEILL
Series producer MICK CSAKY
An Antelope/Csaky production for BBCtv