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Instead, it goes on for years and decimates both populations
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Capital in the Twenty First Century

Instead, it goes on for yearsand decimates both populations

Instead, it goes on for years
and decimates both populations

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Instead, it goes on for years and decimates both populations.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:25:22
Uploaded
Jun 07, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
GFC Films,Upside Télévision

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Based on Thomas Piketty's No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century explores one of the most important and controversial subjects of our time: wealth, and who gets a share of the dividends.
World War I is, at its base, a fight over capital. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
World War I is, at its base, a fight over capital.
And we see this massive post-war economic crash. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
And we see this massive post-war economic crash.
So, you have this new idea after World War I, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:10
So, you have this new idea after World War I,
And the only way you're going to get money - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
And the only way you're going to get money
There is nothing in the working class and the middle class - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
There is nothing in the working class and the middle class
So you see the beginning of the drop in aristocratic power. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
So you see the beginning of the drop in aristocratic power.
And also what you see in the '20s is the growth of the power - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:12
And also what you see in the '20s is the growth of the ...
We sacrificed. You need to give us something back." - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:13
We sacrificed. You need to give us something back."
ARCHIVE: All of the crowds of the Empire City, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:07
ARCHIVE: All of the crowds of the Empire City,
♪ Gone are my blues, and gone are my tears ♪ - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:30
♪ Gone are my blues, and gone are my tears ♪
WOMAN: There was a boom in stock prices, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:10
WOMAN: There was a boom in stock prices,
You know, we have a mythology in this country, in particular, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:09
You know, we have a mythology in this country, in particular...
♪ We're in the money, I'll say we're in the money ♪ - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:14
♪ We're in the money, I'll say we're in the m...
There were dodgy bankers doing dodgy deals knowingly. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
There were dodgy bankers doing dodgy deals knowingly.
It was a real free-for-all of capital. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:04
It was a real free-for-all of capital.
MAN: The bubble of the 1920s - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:08
MAN: The bubble of the 1920s
You use that money to buy more stock, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:07
You use that money to buy more stock,
FOROOHAR: At the same time, you've got tremendous - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:11
FOROOHAR: At the same time, you've got tremendous
Credit was then being offered to kind of paper over that divide. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
Credit was then being offered to kind of paper over that div...
STIGLITZ: That credit cycle fed this bubble, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:09
STIGLITZ: That credit cycle fed this bubble,