Beyond Economics

The Financial Crisis

• Daily Show – David Stockman (4/8/2013)
• The Great Recession in Charts (Center for Budget & Policy Priorities, 6/19/2012)
• FRONTLINE: Money, Power, & Wall Street (4 one-hour episodes)
• Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
• FRONTLINE: Video Timeline
• Elizabeth Warren with Bill Maher
• Colbert Report – The Word – Honor Bound (6:58)
• Daily Show – Jim Cramer: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
• Bank Consolidation
• History of Banking Regulation
• CNBC: The Bubble Decade
• CNBC: House of Cards (Hulu) / CNBC
• FRONTLINE: Inside the Meltdown
• The Credit Crisis Visualized
• U.S. Big Budget Events (prior to current crisis) (CNBC)
• Tracking the Stimulus (graphic from CNN)
  CNN Bailout Tracker (11/2009)
• Potential Total Cost of Bailouts (Bloomberg)($11-12 Trillion vs. $4 T for WWII, $.5 T for New Deal)
• Role of Community Reinvestment Act (WSJ)
• Fannie, Freddie, and Barnie Frank (Boston Globe)
• Financial Bailout vs. Big Historical Events (Big Picture)
• GPS: Michael Lewis – The Big Short - Part 1 (9:22) / Part 2 (6:46) / Imus (8:57)
• Bank Regulation and Income Inequality
• Financial Crisis for Beginners
• No One Saw This Crisis Coming? (FIRE)
• Secret History of the Credit Card
• Bankers and Oil (somewhat conspiratorial)
• NYT: Guide to the Credit Crisis
• The Economics of Structured Finance
• Overview of Derivatives
• New York Magazine: The End of Wall Street as They Knew It
• It’s Different This Time: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
• Ascent of Money (Naill Ferguson)

Wall Street & the Protests

• Daily Show Special Edition on Banking
• The End of Wall Street as They Knew It:
  After surprisingly successful financial reform, public vilification, and politics that have turned against them, the Masters of the Universe are masters no longer.
  By Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine (2/5/2012)
• New York City – Wall Street Protests
• Daily Show – 10/5: Parks & Demonstration (9:23)
• “End the Fed” Rant by a young protester and Ron Paul supporter
• Fox News Shouted Down
• Dylan Ratigan’s Epic Rant