CURTIS LAFORCHE lives in a small town in Ohio with his wife, Samantha, and daughter, Hannah, a six-year-old deaf girl. When Curtis begins to have terrifying apocalyptic dreams, he keeps the visions to himself, channeling his anxiety into obsessively building a storm shelter in his backyard. “Stunning! Already being called an...

IN THE SECOND EPISODE of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, we look at how the financial tsunami swept the world. We hear about a renegade executive who nearly destroyed the global financial system and the US treasury secretary who bailed out his friends. Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and later an economic advisor...