Episode Three: The New Rules of the Game

Chapter 1: Prologue (6:14)

Unforeseen risks

A single market no one controls

Title sequence

Who will rewrite the rules?

Chapter 2: The Global Idea (3:52)

1992: America's economy adrift

Governor Clinton campaigns

Wall Street's agenda

A meeting of minds

Chapter 3: NAFTA: The First Test (5:28)

Trade becomes the issue

That giant sucking sound

Clinton shifts his ground

Labor betrayed?

Chapter 4: Crossing Borders (3:30)

Investment pours into Mexico

An American boom

Who wins; who loses?

The balance of bargaining power

Chapter 5: The Global Market (3:48)

Trade goes invisible

Markets are us

French culture at risk

Pensions must go global

Chapter 6: Emerging Market Hunters (5:01)

Capturing returns

Opening borders

No need to be nice

Thwarting Marx's predictions

Chapter 7: Averting a Meltdown: 1994 (4:56)

Assassinations and revolt

Capital gets nervous

Fishing in the Caribbean

Moral risk in Mexico

Chapter 8: The Global Village (6:47)

Communication explodes

A borderless world

Venture's capital

Talent flows, too

Chapter 9: China and the Tigers (5:35)

David Lee goes home

China's free-trade zones

Immigration's next wave

Singapore's "miracle"

Chapter 10: The Japanese Paradox (3:01)

Invincibility evaporates

Economic contradictions

A mountain of bad debt

Killing off new ideas

Chapter 11: Global Contagion Begins (7:55)

Begging us to borrow

Flaws in the system

Building the bubble

Shorting the baht

Chapter 12: Contagion Engulfs Asia (7:13)

America doesn't intervene

Indonesia implodes

Economic colonialism?

Korea at the brink

Chapter 13: Russia Defaults (2:31)

Markets in denial

Countries do go broke

Russia defaults

Panic in action

Chapter 14: The Crisis Reaches America (7:07)

Long Term Capital Management

Brazil at risk

Is it over yet?

Thailand after the fall

Chapter 15: The Global Debate (2:49)

New risks, new requirements

Easier said than done

A new locus for rebellion

Anti-globalization is born

Chapter 16: The Battle Joined (5:08)

The streets of Seattle

A global labor contradiction

Invisible beneficiaries

A free-trade double standard?

Chapter 17: Failure at the Summit (4:58)

Clinton in a corner

Not seeing eye to eye

Getting off foreign aid

The World Bank under attack

Chapter 18: The Global Divide (2:33)

Poverty no one can ignore

Can a one-world market help?

Earning legitimacy

Why is it growing worse?

Chapter 19: Capitalism Redefined (7:00)

A tool for the poor to prosper

What's missing in Peru

Property, law, and trust

On the slopes of Kilimanjaro

Chapter 20: The Bottom End of Globalism (4:46)

The moral problem

Snake kids

Oliver Twist has a television

Clinton's farewell

Chapter 21: Changing of the Guard (3:04)

The trade agenda moves forward

Bush meets Fox in Mexico

NAFTA plus

A raison d'etre for the left

Chapter 22: The Battle Resumed (6:38)

Quebec City, 2001

The revolution will be streamed

Protests without solutions

The wrong diagnosis?

Chapter 23: 9/11

Things can go in another direction (3:47)

Terrorism and recession

Doha: The next round begins

Increasing the odds for peace