eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better live there better and i think they are inheriting whatever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand more than home for a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us i had a thought to me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interest same to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photo all those years ago i don't know this but we are not.

here's how it started with us households thinking ever deeper into debt encouraged by the government and the banks to take out mortgages even those who did not have the means to do so. until the day the bubble burst this has been a storage sunday street at this hour the lehman brothers investment bank appears headed toward bankruptcy in two thousand and eight the poorest homeowners unable to meet their mortgage repayments began to massively sell off their properties the real estate market collapsed and along with it the banks who become embroiled in these subprime loans. on september fifteenth two thousand and eight the death of lehman brothers the four floors. just u.s.

investment bank marked the beginning of a huge financial and economic crisis that would spread worldwide. the likes of it had not been seen since the great depression of the thirty's a wave of corporate bankruptcy is followed with considerable loss of jobs. people blamed the bankers like here in iceland for eighty percent of the banking system collapsed and even more so in greece where the state teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. with the crisis of public debt skyrocketed as did household overindebtedness a veritable scourge that would affect one person in twenty in europe especially in the u.k. . five years the guy me and my husband split up. i actually kicks my husband out and miss out a big impact on my children so i think at the time then i had a lot of making up to do to them and at the time i thought that the way i needed to

make up to them was financially so i would just try many out them on christmases i would go ridiculous spend ridiculous amounts of money not thousands of pounds on stuff they didn't need and work like they'd probably play with once then go in the water i say i strike twice i was so ten i did it. but then one line wasn't enough so i had back then i took another loan to pay the loan back and the how to start game bigger and the star game bigger and it was spiraling out of control. like many other british people sharon fell into the trap of easy credit with online catalogs where with a simple click one can buy all kinds of products on credit often with annual interest rates of up to thirty percent. it was so we say it was so easy to go online and go yeah it was my name my address my details yeah thank you very much.

monies in your account they made that made it too easy for me to get into debt. as for philip he took out loans to supplement his meager pension but he went under when the government abolished his council tax exoneration for the elderly. when i do i did three very well because of the worry over the weekend. i was actually going to bed over in a wooden weikel because our god got so. to death built up so much that scared me so much. i didn't know what to do. i'd lost complete national company or were. going to answer the door and you were somebody looking for money. or were down to a phony. one of their clubs would outflow from pride that i wouldn't pardon that that money you know. the bankers were how by the government the

banks got into trouble and all the big bankers got big. think on the government by the banks but i didn't think of the ordinary the ordinary men and women that. lost money through the bank. so because the bank to banks have been helped by the government. the infrastructure for the proof of the contrary to all but disappeared and you know there were a lot of coach. i'm just trying to make my own you were to me because it's changed yeah i'll go on if it is in front of me all right and thank. you but yes you want to speak to us that's fine let me let me get everything up here for you sharon regained hope thanks to the advisors at step change the u.k.'s

largest debt charity which specializes in debt problems in two thousand and fifteen they advised on average over one thousand five hundred people a day because in the u.k. the price of economic recovery has been very liberal austerity measures the driving down of wages and drastic cuts in social welfare. the definition of problem that is not straightforward our government defines it as anybody who has been at least three months behind their debts in the last six months that's eight point eight million people in the u.k. that face and have. become ill you lose your job your relationship breaks down here become a casualty most important in most circumstances is you get help to get back on your feet because the cost to why does the society of people being in there are huge over half the people who come to us have had to go and see their doctor about

mental health or other issues just to give you certain general impulse price ok with the enforcement. they do need to me peaceful and healthy into the sound because what they'll do them to do is to control did. so i know you know that it. takes to keep the door shut tight in fact again and so. at the time i felt like it was just may and i would else was financially following and it was only me. that was suffering. sorry. i thought i was the only one that was actually having to do with living like this and living with the fear of losing my head a milly's not upset. with my children having my children taken away from aches i couldn't look after them properly.

by way of a strange paradox people who are deeply in debt feel terribly alone and yet they are increasingly numerous. in france over one person in ten admits suffering from financial difficulties like dominic who was made redundant three years ago in strasburg. he has resolved to go and see the creases association whose initials ironic a stand for. regional chamber for social overindebted this has become a mainstay of social assistance for those who find themselves in a financial dead end twenty five associations in france six hundred voluntary staff who would like step change still engage in face to face interviews relique. if you want to. let go thank you they don't want for you to favor.

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remember that family. was all go. together. and. as you who. are the voluntary advisors are often former bankers who now retired have decided to change sides as it were their kind of repentance here the volunteers share their past expertise like the chairman of cases strasburg. a former lawyer a voluntary advisor for ten years and

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bought off. the marshall. islamic states claims it was behind the manchester terror attack by. fraud so kill the priest every time a terrorist attack happens all these people are out there screaming isis is so bad someone needs to do. something. that. gives. a number. of. these channels to hafiz whom. live in misery.

the international community continues to be emphasize about what iraq or united iraq as a slogan may be an approach to the politicians but in reality all the growth iraqis . united. yes kurds are not the ones to be blamed for what is happening in the rest of iraq and the direct wrong directions that iraq has gone through. drive to medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life. like everything with ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit suicide what or who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors

told us to do we were being responsible and what are the real side effects why. was. it what i did was done to move legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's. like many of the inhabitants of this little volcanic island in the north of europe fani founder self overindebted despite having made no mistakes because here most mortgages are consumer price index yet due to the crisis and the fifty percent devaluation of the icelandic currency inflation soared as a result mortgage repayments suddenly doubled and many icelanders found themselves drowning in debt.

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eisemann a police escort. off the queue. at the bar. and. throw millionaires do you. think. you come off to millionaires but the old. testament communion that you've been imported. acted like. there is nothing. after. enough that's three hundred million if. you include. as long as a person can pay off their loans they were given the red carpet treatment

everywhere but once that person can no longer meet their repayments things get more complicated today most consumer credit companies have been acquired by major banks such as. his debt collection agency very eager to stay in touch with their clients. trying to continue to use unit congress to do. something. well you know. what but. i think you have certain of what you did i'll show you. he don't want to work against people cheer. up took a look at. me . do you david this you'll.

feel that that i'm a multi seeking all. the usual. daily phone. call that the kids it was it made them. but we me it was it was. they was a make of it was invert they'll see where you. like let me suspect. not really do trust one critter. so you. know i. do trust. clearly to steer through. the film. was i

think simple something i need to. she to see to see to to know that he's trying to create the suppressor and once you want it. in the autumn of two thousand and eleven americans took to the streets to protest against the greed and cynicism of their banks huge profits. toxic subprime loans to pull of the knew that if they got into trouble the state would step in to eventually bail them out because given their financial clout the whole system would collapse if they were to go under there were simply too big to fail.

one of the leading figures in the occupy wall street movement is the american anthropologist david graber a specialist in the history of debt and one of the inventors of the slogan we are the ninety nine percent of those who own less than the richest one percent there was about a period of three or four months after two thousand and eight where people were all saying you know what is dead anyway what is money what do we have the systems why is find it so important is this even capitalism to even want capitalism all open questions seem to be open because everything we do so turns out to be wrong socially for thirty years they've been. saying well you know capitalism might not be a very pleasant system but it's much better these people who are running the system might not be very nice people but they're really smart and they're the only thing that works and there's you know they know they understand what they're doing you don't just shut up and leave it to the experts and it turns out all these people who are supposed to trust their expertise were either complete idiots or scam artists or both how they could imagine it would lead to anything else is beyond.

what would it be. in spain widespread evictions by the banks of over indebted families gave birth to a vast civic resistance movement in two thousand and nine in barcelona outraged militants set up the ph platform for victims which currently comprises two hundred fifty neighborhood associations across the country. and. the laws there. said to me professionals there. and

those. means that i think is emotionally he said. yes if you. don't see. the us. but i think i meet and. marry me and if we imagine there's too much maybe mrs miller is a pattern isn't the most that is with his match on me an email you know they feel mass consumer and this made. us know in. your understand there man that the main objective was to reform spanish mortgage

lending laws according to which when a bank repossesses a property the outstanding debt is not automatically cancelled with the bursting of the property bubble and the plummeting house prices many families found themselves up to their eyes in debt even after having sold their homes. in madrid the ruling conservative people's party plucked the reform but in barcelona on july twenty ninth two thousand and fifteen it was unanimously ratified by the catalan powers thank you. but i guess i mean yes it is. a lot. but i was there any particular like you live. in this house here. when they. look anything. like you left.

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second parent what was interesting with tommy there were those little. as the end of. the thing when daniel is needles you're in no way on us in battle and they play sawdust in. the capital so i mean this is and i'm a little too as is the rest i'm see the little in that is. that this is a way to get our personal debt. a silo is how you would i know i made the law and if it. the situation is particularly worrying in the northern european countries in sweden norway finland and especially here in denmark where the rate of household debt is currently the highest in europe three hundred percent of disposable income doubled out of the u.k. tripled out of france or germany over the past twenty years the danes have gotten

massively indebted encouraged by governments made access to credit very easy. was going to go. through. good and.

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