Since the collapse of the credit markets in 2008, the PBS documentary series Frontline has been producing an outstanding, if perhaps overly dramatic, series of programs explaining the causes of the crisis and what’s been happening in the Great Recession since then. The latest is Money, Power, and Wall Street. It borrows a lot of interview video from the earlier programs, but there could have been more from the show about Brooksley Born and her warnings about the dangers of high-risk betting with borrowed money masquerading as “investing.”
Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.