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The Economic Collapse: Fixing Blame
The series details the AIG bailout and the decisions surrounding it. It also looks at how small community banks in the Greenspan-era were able to overextend themselves like the big Wall Street banks did.
Tags: Moody's; AIG; bailout; banks; Wall Street; Ben Bernanke
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"Krugman and Depressions in America"
In this report, Professor Paul Krugman analyzes the causes of the U.S. financial collapse. The story also explains "how the crisis was experienced in the U.S." Complicated economic topics covered and are explained to a public who may not have a background or much experience in dealing with economic issues.
Tags: Great Depression; economic collapse; unemployment; fraud; poverty; Bernie Madoff; financial institutions
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"House of Cards"
In this investigation, CNBC takes a look at the beginnings of the "global economic collapse." After 9/11, the U.S. government "dropped interest rates" in an attempt to breathe new life into the economy. The investigation reveals how Wall Street took on unstable mortgages to "re-package it and sell it to investors." This story includes personal accounts from home buyers, mortgage brokers, bankers and more.
Tags: hedge-fund; housing market; economic collapse; recession; Wall Street; George W. Bush; Alan Greenspan; Henry Paulson; bailouts; bankrupt; credit crisis
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WAMU: Inside The Collapse
It's October 2008: major banks are failing, Congress is bailing them out with taxpayer dollars. The public deserves to know how we got into the mess. ABC News Nightline's "Inside the Collapse" was first to expose a top-down, company-wide reckless lending strategy that led to the biggest bank failure in U.S. history: Washington Mutual Bank. Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas got inside Washington Mutual's culture and uncovered what really went wrong using original reporting, an exclusive whistleblower interview, a video of a jubilant company party, exclusive internal company documents, former employee interviews and victim interviews. His piece, as well as a follow-up on World news with Charles Gibson and articles on ABCNews.com, caught the attention of law enforcement. Two days after the piece aired, federal prosecutors announced that because of "intense public interest" they were investigating the bank's activities with assistance from the FBI, FDIC, SEC and IRS. The story was widely reported in the national media in the following weeks.
Tags: Washington Mutual; Securities and Exchange Commission; Internal Revenue Service; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; FDIC; Federal Bureau of Investigation; economics
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America's Corporate Royalty
This group of stories ran throughout all of 2008. In a year in which bad decisions by corporate leaders led the country into financial crisis, the ABC News investigative team produced a series of reports on America's corporate royalty -- the CEOs who used their company treasuries not only to enrich and pamper themselves, but to gain advantage in the courts and Congress, with scant regard for the country's democratic principles.
Tags: bailout; economic collapse; Big Three; Lehman Brothers; Wall Street; Ford; Chrysler; General Motors
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The Three Marketeers
Although the U.S. economy has been nothing but sunshine, it has been a terrifying year in world markets. So far, the U.S. has dodged these bullets, but the danger to its economy is far from over. In late-night phone calls, in marathon meetings and over bagels, three men - Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers - are working to stop what has become a plague of economic panic. By fighting off one collapse after another - and defending their economic policy from political meddling - the three men have so far protected American growth, making investors deliriously, perhaps delusionally, happy in the process.
Tags: Stock market; Feds; Treasury; Federal Reserve
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New York Newsday profiles the Harlem Commonwealth Council, an economic development group charged with revitalizing Harlem, and its controversial and longtime president; finds that the organization is on the verge of financial collapse after receiving more than $40 million over the past 24 years, Dec. 23, 1991.
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No title (id: 2635)
Veterinary Economics publishes article on the practices and collapse of the country's largest franchised veterinary hospital and how its business practices affected franchises, June 1984.
Tags: Fiorello