FRONTLINE | "The Warning" | PBS

FRONTLINE | "The Warning" | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/warning/ FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, explores the early warning signs, and asks: Who knew? And who ignored? "The Warning" airs Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings).

In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, FRONTLINE sifts the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently. Looking back into the 1990s, veteran FRONTLINE producer/director Michael Kirk ("Inside the Meltdown," "Breaking the Bank") discovers early warnings of the crash, reveals an intense battle among high-ranking members of the Clinton administration and uncovers a concerted effort not to regulate the emerging, highly complex and lucrative derivatives markets that would become the ticking time bomb within the American economy.

Watch "The Warning" on air and online beginning Tuesday, October 20 on PBS (check local listings) and at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/warning/

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[FacelessPhoenix]

Thank you Frontline for the absolute highest quality productions and content thru the years.

[mrpatience2007]

Nothing has been changed to keep it from happening again, in fact obama just give the crooks more power.

[airforcemax]

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance."

James Madison, (1751-1836),

Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

[IvanaToke]

#OccupyWallStreet

[KelleyBeld]

Excellent piece of documentary journalism ! Frontline always gets it right but this piece is a masterpiece. They managed to explain a complex series of inter-related events in a way so that even an average person like myself could understand it . Thank you Frontline for explaining how the biggest scam in history was pulled off! Now if we could just prosecute some of these criminals-it would sure make the American people feel a little better!

[badattitude77769]

@BenkaiDebussy My experience is that corporations are totally evil, people die, are crippled and poisoned by corporations without regulation, please do what you can to prevent the total facist takeover of the world.

[BenkaiDebussy]

@GaryVolts One thing I never see pro-free market people mention is that any form of limited liability business wouldn't exist in a true free market. They only exist as legal entities enforced by the government. I confuses me when libertarians (not saying you are) act like corporations are some natural element of the free market. I'm not against corporations personally - they allow businesses to raise money fast - but there's a huge amount of hypocrisy among those who claim to be laissez faire.

[BenkaiDebussy]

@GaryVolts Markets aren't close to efficient. A true "free market" is impossible in reality. While the government does act in the benefit of large corporations, lack of regulation would only increase harmful behavior. Even if you ignore things like public goods, inelastic demand, high capital cost/low competition, etc, people lack the infinite time and knowledge to know if a company is creating unsafe goods, and it would be impossible to distinguish a legitimate evaluation from a fake one.

[ptu1969]

This episode is a shoddy piece of journalism instead of their usual stellar work.

[reel1840]

what choice will you make? illuminati

[ayushaps]

Brooksley Born... genius unheard.

[jebryant38]

Brooksley Born champion of the people.