Boom Bust Boom
Boom Bust Boom is a documentary about mankind's history of speculative bubbles, in which Terry Jones (Monty Python) investigates the worldwide economic crash of 2008, and how we can avoid another global collapse in the future.
28 February 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
2 June 1968, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, UK
16 January 1952, England, UK
1 February 1942, Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
7 April 1951, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
28 June 1966, Evanston, Illinois, USA
1980, Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK
January 29, 1952 in USA
10 September 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1970, Bury, Greater Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
29 March 1946, Detroit, Michigan, USA
March 11, 2016
It's a terrible conceit with terrible execution...
March 10, 2016
For those who aren't automatically turned off by the idea of an issue-doc that Schoolhouse Rock-ifies a serious, grown-up subject, Boom Bust Boom is a worthwhile way to spend an hour.
March 14, 2016
A spunky and creative critique of neoclassical economics.
March 08, 2016
[A] breezy, puppet- and song-filled jaunt through the dismal science of economics.
March 11, 2016
Whoever could have dreamed that economics could be so much fun? I guess that goes with the territory when it is explained by people of the left in a film in the Monty Python tradition.
March 10, 2016
A remarkably enjoyable, and sometimes very funny, documentary about a frightening topic.
March 08, 2016
The point of Boom Bust Boom, a friendly little pic hosted by Monty Python's Terry Jones, is that the world is little closer to acknowledging the causes of that trauma, and until we digest its lessons, something similar is bound to happen again.
March 11, 2016
Monty Python alum explains financial crisis, with puppets.
March 07, 2016
From Monty Python's Terry Jones comes an amusing, informative breakdown of just what the hell is wrong with the economy and a few ideas on how to fix it.
April 06, 2016
Treating our historically specific economic system as an extension of human nature, one which can be diagnosed by studying incipient monkey-capitalists, isn't much of an analysis.
March 08, 2016
It had me right up to the moment it passes off John Cusack as one of its economics/history/psychology "experts."
March 08, 2016
Jones presents a stark picture of a bifurcated economic system: the real one, in which ordinary citizens struggle; and the financial economy, in which the livelihoods of citizens are leveraged by the wealthy for speculative bets.
