PBS Frontline – Inside the Meltdown

In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger [...]

Inside the Merrill Lynch – Bank of America Merger

As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and staggering new rates of default and bankruptcy, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. In The Card Game, a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card and [...]

The Madoff Affair unravels the story behind the world’s first truly global Ponzi scheme. Who saw the warning signs? Why were they ignored for so long? Billions of dollars were channeled to Madoff’s investment firm, and his feeders became fabulously wealthy. The competition wondered how the man could produce such steady returns in good times [...]

Based on “A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class,” by Joe Nocera of Fortune magazine, who also does the reporting, the hour captures the frenetic pace and high stakes of the financial game as it is now being played. The focus is on the allure that superstar mutual-fund wizards [...]