Goldman Sachs - Eine Bank lenkt die Welt

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The U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has become in recent years a symbol of excess and rampant speculation in the financial sector . Her business with the insolvency of American households have indeed brought to the brink of bankruptcy, but ultimately it was preserved thanks to their political connections before removing . Even against the Euro is to Goldman Sachs have speculated and not be indifferent to the economic crisis in Greece.

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Economics USA Europe Documentation / reportage Politics Law / Justice
The documentary gives an insight into the mechanisms of financial and political machinations of the Bank . For five years, the U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs stands for all excesses and lapses of financial speculation . Through highly speculative transactions with the insolvency of American households , the Bank was able to enrich the current financial crisis and has been preserved thanks to their political connections themselves from bankruptcy.

When the American crisis swept across the Atlantic to Europe , Goldman Sachs was one of the protagonists of the euro crisis: speculation the Bank is against the European single currency and have fined the Greek sovereign debt balance with the help of complex and opaque currency transactions . When European governments fell victim to the wrath of the voters in succession , Goldman Sachs took advantage of the hour to expand their influence complex braid to the old continent .

Goldman Sachs is more than one bank . It is an invisible empire , exceeding its assets by 700 billion euros , the budget of the French State by two times . She is a financial empire on the sunny side , which has transformed the world with his wild speculations and his greed into a giant casino. With world unique links and an army of 30,000 bankers Goldman Sachs was also in the last five years of crisis reap strong profits , strengthen its financial strength , strengthen its influence on governments and on the part of American and European judicial assure total impunity .

The business practices of the bank is very discreet. Their influence extends far into the daily lives of citizens into - from Facebook IPO on the appointment of the President of the European Central Bank through to lobbying against the regulation of the financial sector . The arm of the bank is long and she is always on the winning side.

The documentary by Jérôme Fritel and Marc Roche, an economic journalist in the French newspaper " Le Monde" and author of the bestseller " La Banque " , penetrates into the nerve center of the empire, which knows no limits or restrictions and infiltrated the Western democracies dangerously . Former employees of Goldman Sachs, who wish to remain anonymous , employees of competing banks, representatives of public authorities , as well as leading politicians , economists and specialists provide first insight into the mechanisms of financial and political omnipotence of this bank .

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" Bank robbery is a company of amateurs . True professionals establish a bank . " The Brecht quote is known, the story also: Since there is capitalism , pull the bankers behind the scenes of power the threads . But how far can this go influence? When the red line is crossed ?

The 2008 financial crisis triggered a global economic crisis . To the banks - and the system - save that the states have debt. The price paid to citizens. The accounts of the bankers , who were responsible for excessive speculation by the crisis , went on . A moral bankruptcy and a threat to the world economy. But not only that more and more people in Europe to doubt the ability of their leaders to protect them. Have the financial markets actually more power than the elected representatives ? Trust in politics is shaken ; from the financial and economic crisis is a crisis of our democracy has become .

The demand is clear: the banks must be put under political control . But this is still possible ? Is their power at all vulnerable ? Players in the financial industry sit at public post - and vice versa. The collection of the policy by the banks is getting stronger , and the linkages are becoming opaque .

With two documentaries ARTE takes up the controversial subject . The documentary " Goldman Sachs - A bank directs the World" exposes the unscrupulous machinations of the U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs An Invisible Empire, which was only even richer by the crisis and was able to expand his political network further . The second contribution " power games . States vs. banks " accompanied politicians in Europe in their daily struggle with the financial world and its seemingly hopeless efforts to regulate the system. While there are partial successes , but sufficiently important ? Will it be possible the policy to reduce the influence of the financial world and regain power - for the benefit of citizens and democracy?

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