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The Buzz Around "Money, Power and Wall Street"
Financial journalists, Occupy Wall Street activists and even a senior economic adviser to President Obama all took to the internet to talk about last night’s broadcast of the first half of "Money, Power and Wall Street."
April 25, 2012
Two Years Later, First Criminal Charges Filed in BP Oil Spill
Two years after oil from a BP well began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal charges alleging that a former BP employee destroyed critical evidence in the early days of the unfolding disaster.
April 25, 2012
Live Chat 1 p.m. ET: Down the Financial Rabbit Hole (Hour 1)
Join Money, Power and Wall Street correspondent Martin Smith and producer Marcela Gaviria for a live chat featuring guest questioner Gillian Tett from the Financial Times. You can leave a question now.
April 25, 2012
Next Week: How the Financial Crisis Never Ended
Money, Power and Wall Street continues next Tuesday (watch a preview above), with an inside look at how the Obama administration, including a divided economic team, has handled the crisis and how the financial world has returned to many of the practices that created the meltdown in the first place.
April 24, 2012
Bloomberg: "Money, Power & Wall Street" "Takes No Prisoners"
"'Money, Power and Wall Street' is demanding -- this isn’t Finance for Dummies, but it’s a compact and thorough lesson," Bloomberg’s Greg Evans writes in his review of FRONTLINE’s new special on the global financial crisis.
April 23, 2012
Dig Deeper: What You Need to Know About the Financial Crisis
Amid the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression, FRONTLINE has been at the forefront of investigating the roots of the meltdown, the hidden stories of those who warned about what was to come and the lessons moving forward.
April 20, 2012
Do We Need a "Death Penalty" for Negligent Oil Companies?
Two years after an explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and unleashed more than 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, deepwater drilling is back up at the levels it was before the April 20, 2010 accident...
April 19, 2012
Top Fed Official: "The Moment Is Now" to Break Up Big Banks
Is the "too big to fail" problem with us now more than ever?
April 2, 2012
