Financial Crisis II: Debating the Policy Response. Documentary Links here
Note that there is no live class today.
This session consists of watching portions of a Frontline documentary about the financial crisis. You can watch on your own time, any time before class on October 22.
The entire document consists of four parts. Please watch the last 8 minutes of Part Two (starting at 46:58, with a picture of the U.S. Capitol dome) and then watch all of Part Three, which is just under an hour (don't be alarmed that the narrator says something about part two at the beginning of part three – that’s just a mistake):
https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-money-power-and-wall-street-part-two/ Links to an external site.
As you watch, think about the competing causal stories of the crisis, the viewpoints of the various experts, and the nature of the policy window that the crisis opened up and implications for policy response.
In case you are interested, the URL for the entire documentary is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/money-power-wall-street Links to an external site.