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{GLENN HUBBARD
CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR, BUSH ADMINISTRATION
DEAN, COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL}
01:
09:58.00{ELLIOT SPITZER
FORMER NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL}
ELIOT SPITZER:
The regulators didn't do their job. They, they had the power todo every case that I made when I was state attorney general. They just didn't want to.
{PRODUCED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
CHARLES FERGUSON}
01:
10:22.00{SEPTEMBER 15, 2008}
NEWS REPORTER:
Over the weekend, Lehman Brothers, one of the most venerableand biggest investment banks, was forced to declare itself bankrupt; another, Merrill
Lynch, was forced to sell itself today. Crisis talks are underway –
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WOMAN REPORTER:
World financial markets are way down today, following dramaticdevelopments for two Wall Street giants.
WOMAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE: [UI].
MAN SPEAKING FRENCH: [UI].
01:
10:45.00NARRATOR:
In September 2008, the bankruptcy of the U.S. investment bank LehmanBrothers, and the collapse of the world's largest insurance company, AIG, triggered a
global financial crisis.
NEWSCASTER:
– fears gripped markets overnight, with Asian stocks slammed by –NEWSMAN:
Stocks fell off a cliff – the largest single point drop in history.NEWSMAN WITH BRITISH ACCENT: Share prices continued to tumble in the
aftermath of the Lehman collapse.
01:
11:10.00NARRATOR:
The result was a global recession, which cost the world tens of trillions ofdollars; rendered 30 million people unemployed; and doubled the national debt of the
United States.
01:
11:21.00{NOURIEL ROUBINI
SENIOR ECONOMIST
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS (1998-2000)
PROFESSOR, NYU BUSINESS SCHOOL}
NOURIEL ROUBINI:
If you look at the cost of it — destruction of equity wealth, ofhousing wealth; the destruction of income, of jobs; 50 million people globally could end
up below the poverty line again — this is just a, a hugely, hugely expensive crisis.
01:
11:41.00NARRATOR:
This crisis was not an accident. It was caused by an out-of-controlindustry. Since the 1980s, the rise of the U.S. financial sector has led to a series of
increasingly severe financial crises. Each crisis has caused more damage, while the
industry has made more and more money.
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01:
12:03.25 {PART I: HOW WE GOT HERE}NARRATOR:
After the Great Depression, the United States had 40 years of economicgrowth, without a single financial crisis. The financial industry was tightly regulated.
Most regular banks were local businesses, and they were prohibited from speculating
with depositors' savings. Investment banks, which handled stock and bond trading, were
small, private partnerships.
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