Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The warning [videorecording] / produced by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser ; written and directed by Michael Kirk ; a Frontline co-production with Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd. ; a production of WGGBH Boston.

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2009.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Examines the derivative securities market during the 1990s and explores early warnings of the financial crisis of 2008. Uncovers an intense battle between high-ranking members of the Clinton administration versus Brooksley Born who tried to sound the alarm about the need to regulate the emerging, highly complex, and lucrative derivatives markets. Examines Alan Greenspan's economic policies.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Greenspan, Alan, 1926-

Born, Brooksley, 1940-

Derivative securities.

Financial crises -- United States.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.

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