Dispatches - Crash - How The Banks Went Bust (2009)

BBC Channel 4, 20th April 2009

Part 1 of 2

Part 2: http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=17553

After a period of sloppy journalism over issues that just aren't really issues in the grand scheme of things. Dispatches returns with a bang to cover what is the biggest issue of all today: our current financial woes. And to this end it's helped in no small part by being presented by everyone's favourite economist, Will Hutton.

Setting the scene, just before he became Prime Minister in 2007, chancellor Gordon Brown congratulated the city on their ingenuity and creativity during his tenure: 'An era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the city of London'. He might as well have worked for Decca and said, 'Guitar groups are going out of fashion.'

Now, thanks to the financial crash, Britain is facing economic hard times. The debts the UK is incurring will take generations to pay off. But how did the economy get from boom to bust? In this two-part special, economist and author Will Hutton gives the definitive insider's account of what went wrong.

Talking to the key players in government, Wall Street and the City, Hutton unveils the true extent of the greed, ambition and reckless risk-taking that is now carrying the economy into the worst recession for a century.

Is it really true that no one saw it coming? Or could the recession have been prevented?

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