Financial crisis
The Collapse of Lehman Brothers – A Simple Overview
| Company Man | The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy is the largest one of all time and it helped spark the 2008 financial crisis. The subject can be a bit complex but given that it’s such a historical event, I think…
The $500 Billion/Year World of Counterfeits
| VICE | ‘Bad Goods’ is a documentary series for Vice News looking at the worldwide illicit trade market, from wildlife trafficking, counterfeit item selling and sand mining. It will follow key people, from enforcement to traffickers, at the heart…
- 2021
- Counterfeit, Financial crisis
How Malaysia’s Banking Scandal Led To the Death of an Auditor
| VICE | The assassination of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad (BBMB) senior auditor Jalil Ibrahim shook the world. Prior to 1MDB, one of Malaysia’s biggest financial scandals was the Bank Bumiputra scandal. An elaborate scheme of corruption, false accounting, and…
- 2021
- Corruption, Financial crisis
South Seas Bubble of 1720: the First Major Manipulation of Financial Markets
| Video Economist| The first major manipulation of financial markets. Today we look at the South Seas bubble of 1720. The South Sea Company was a British investment company that collapsed in 1720 due to a speculative bubble, the South…
Gangsters, Golf and Greenbacks
| BBC | An African construction giant mired in debt and on the verge of collapsing hires in two highly-paid British bosses to try and bring it back from the brink. Eighteen months later the business is bust, hundreds of…
The Universal Credit Crisis
| BBC Panorama | As the government’s controversial new benefits system, universal credit, is rolled out, Panorama is with families as they struggle with their claims. The programme follows one council as it deals with mounting rent arrears and tenants…
De Ijsland-ervaring
| VPRO | Tegenlicht staat stil bij de kredietcrisis die een jaar geleden in alle hevigheid losbarstte. Na de reconstructie van de val van Lehman Brothers nu een portret van IJsland, één jaar na de implosie van het volledige banksysteem…
- 2010
- Financial crisis
De Achtste Dag
| KRO NCRV | In 2008 klapte het Europese financiële stelsel bijna in elkaar. Aan de hand van de reddingsoperatie van FORTIS/ABNAMRO nemen Europese leiders van toen ons mee naar de zeven spannendste dagen van 2008. Waar staan we nu,…
SNS, klein geworden door groot te doen
| BNN VARA | SNS Bank en verzekeringsmaatschappij SNS Reaal worden begin dit jaar door de Nederlandse overheid voor 3,7 miljard euro gered van een faillissement. SNS, ooit een spaarbank voor de gewone man, wil na de beursgang in 2006…
- 2013
- Financial crisis
Blackout in Puerto Rico
| Frontline | FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.
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