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Series offering a definitive account of what happened to create the greatest financial crisis for eighty years. In September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers tipped the world into recession. A... cast of contributors including national leaders, finance ministers and CEOs describe the tense negotiations in New York and London as the investment institution headed towards bankruptcy. Gordon Brown, Tim Geithner and Alistair Darling reveal the dilemmas they faced and the decisions they took. One year on, the programme explains why the collapse of one bank had such disastrous consequences for the world's economy.
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Series: The love of money
First transmission date: 10-09-2009
Published: 2009
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Duration: 00:59:30
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Producer: Emma De'Ath
Narrator: Alex Jennings
Publisher: BBC Open University ZDF
Link to related site: Website: http://www.open2.net/loveofmoney/programme_1_extras.html
Keyword(s): Dick Fuld.
Subject terms: Bankruptcy; Debt; Global economics; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Lehman Brothers (1993-2008);
Production number: FKAH671R
Videofinder number: 81368
Available to public: no