Sunday, September 21, 2008

Blaine's latest...

... is his second enterprise story from the Philippines, about the incredible shortage of doctors there because the vast majority leave the Philippines to make more money working as nurses in the US. End result: the proportion of Filipinos dying without medical attention is a stunning 70 percent.

Here's the video he did for the story. He was with the hospital's chief doctor during a power shortage, when he went to see an elderly man who'd died in his bed.

But that's not all! On Friday, Blaine had an unusually revealing interview with a top guy at Japan's central bank.

The banker was surprisingly open about Japan's dependence on the US economy and banking stability, saying, as Blaine put it, that Japan is "captive" to the US economy and had no choice but to do a $60 billion currency swap with the Federal Reserve.

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