The Global Debt Addiction
A long-form finance explainer whose fast expert cold open gives way to patient animated bond diagrams.
By @FinancialTimes for Financial TimesRuns 29:59
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Why it works
The opening makes a high-stakes claim at 0:02 and uses 29 shots in its first minute to move from institutions to expert warnings. It then slows for a persistent animated bond diagram at 3:27–4:08; the price-and-yield sequence at 3:54–4:12 is the most replayed stretch within the measured six-minute excerpt.
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