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Financial Crisis: Video

This guide offers links to news articles, books, and Web Sites pertaining to the financial crisis.

End of Wall Street Video Series

In three boxes below you'll find:

  • Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the End of Wall Street video series featured on WSJ.com.  In the series "journal reporters explain how some of Wall Street's biggest financial institutions were brought down" (description from wsj.com).

  • Videos on the financial crisis by Paddy Hirsch, Senior Editor of Public Radio's Marketplace.

  • Inside the Meltdown from PBS' Frontline which features video, interviews, a timeline and analys of the economic crisis.

End of Wall Street: What Happened (Part 1 of 3) 1/5/2009

Video From WSJ.com

From the WSJ web site: "In the first of this three-part series, Journal reporters explain how the housing bubble inflated and burst, and why easy money led to the collapse of Wall Street's biggest financial institutions."

End of Wall Street: Why it Happened (part 2 of 3) 1/5/2009

Video From WSJ.com

From the WSJ web site: "What was going through the minds of CEOs, corporate boards, fund managers and mortgage lenders as they created hard-to-understand derivatives Warren Buffett once called "weapons of financial mass destruction." 

End of Wall Street: What Happens Next (part 3 of 3) 1/5/2009

Video From WSJ.com

From the WSJ web site: "This final chapter of the crisis on Wall Street tells the story of the $700-billion bailout, as seen through a reporter's eyes, and looks at what's ahead for the global economy."

Marketplace

Join Paddy Hirsch, Senior Editor of Public Radio's Marketplace, for a series of videos on the Financial Crisis.  I have included one below.

PBS: Frontline

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