Breaking the Bank

Dr.Docs' Take

Breaking the Bank is FRONTLINE inside the 2008 collapse, the moment the biggest banks made enormous bets on the housing market and then handed the bill to everyone else. I love a financial story where the greed is not hidden in shadows but printed in the quarterly reports. The upside was private and the downside was yours. A clear-eyed look at how the too-big-to-fail machine actually broke.

The bets were enormous and the risks immense as superbanks poured billions into the housing market. This FRONTLINE film reconstructs how the pursuit of profit fuelled a collapse that shook the global economy. It examines the decisions, greed and failures at the heart of the financial crisis. Detailed and sobering, it explains how the bottom dropped out of the banking world. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

Courtesy of FRONTLINE PBS on YouTube. Watch on YouTube ↗

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