By lakaiPublished: September 18, 2009Posted in: VideoTags: BBC, financial collapse, lehman, the love of money
Series offering a definitive account of what happened to create the greatest financial crisis for eighty years.
In September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers tipped the world into recession. A cast of contributors including national leaders, finance ministers and CEOs describe the tense negotiations in New York and London as the investment institution headed towards bankruptcy. Gordon Brown, Tim Geithner and Alistair Darling reveal the dilemmas they faced and the decisions they took.
One year on, the programme explains why the collapse of one bank had such disastrous consequences for the world’s economy.
Part Two, Part Three
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BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 3 – Back from the Brink
26 September 2009 6:40 AM |
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The Last of episode of “The Love of Money” three part series.
In the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared into the abyss of total financial collapse. The third part of the BBC’s definitive series on the crash tells the extraordinary story of how politicians reacted, and asks [...]
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BBC: The Love of Money – Episode 2 – The Age of Risk
19 September 2009 9:38 AM |
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The series on the global crash examines the boom years before the bust. With testimony from many of the key decision makers who shaped our lives over the last two decades, including Gordon Brown, governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, and an exclusive interview with former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan [...]
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Crash – How the Banks Went Bust
18 September 2009 8:51 PM |
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Just before he became Prime Minister in 2007, chancellor Gordon Brown congratulated the city on their ingenuity and creativity during his tenure: ‘An era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the city of London’. He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Now, thanks to the financial crash, Britain is facing [...]
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Wall Street 2 : Money Never Sleeps
30 January 2010 8:39 AM |
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Greed is Good ! Gordon Gekko is back!
Director Oliver Stone has often reflected upon the nation’s past in such films as Platoon,Born on the Fourth of July,JFKand Nixon. But, unlike history, he doesn’t like to repeat himself. Until now, that is, when Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to his 1987 descent into [...]
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Dispatches – Crash – How long Will it Last ?
26 September 2009 6:28 AM |
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In the second half of this special two-part Dispatches, economist and author Will Hutton continues the definitive insider’s account of how Britain’s economy went from boom to bust.
Hutton reveals how those who tried to warn of the impending financial disaster were shouted down, ignored or fired. As a result, the repercussions of the collapse of [...]
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