Empire of Debt Documentary News As you may know, we here at The Daily Reckoning are hard at work producing a documentary film based on the bestselling book, Empire of Debt, by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin. And of course, we like to keep you updated as to the progress of this monumental piece of work. Here is a collection of the news we have thus far: Lights, Camera, Empire...
04/08/06
“Isn’t it funny how things work out? A couple of months ago, we were tossing around the idea of making a documentary based on Addison and Bill’s latest missive, Empire of Debt. We put the proposal in an issue of the DR one day and asked our readers to let us know what they thought.”
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2006/WEDR040806.html Bad Idea
06/03/06
“A few weeks ago, a young woman, we’ll call her ‘Jane’, was traveling from Vancouver, British Columbia to meet with us at the DR HQ in Baltimore to discuss our upcoming documentary.”
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2006/WEDR060306.html DR Note
11/16/06
“Credit card debt...” the cabbie whinnied. “Aw c’mon... why didn’t you choose a more cheerful subject... something funny and entertaining... something the whole family could enjoy... something like... like... I dunno... gay pedophiles who become serial murderers... yeah, that would definitely be more cheerful.”
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2006/DR111606.html DR Note
02/27/07
“‘There’s no sexiness to it,’ an accountant told Matt Crenson, an AP writer following David Walker and the Concord Coalition on their Fiscal Wake Up Tour. She then suggested they hire Oprah to ‘sell’ fiscal responsibility to the American people. Walker doesn’t want to make it sexy...he just wants to wake people up.”
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2007/DR022707.html Spreading the Word on Dangerous Debt
03/07/07
“As you probably know, we’re hard at work filming a documentary about the themes in our bestselling Empire of Debt. The work has taken us from the power halls of Congress to Hollywood offices containing a different kind of power.”
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Featured/Wiggin030707.html A Strategic Suggestion for thee “Empire of Debt” Documentary
“The DR gang back in Baltimore and London, and the Rude Awakening axis-of-surfing in New York are soliciting suggestions for a documentary about Empire of Debt. I’ve got one: model it on Easy Rider.”
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