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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
Your Week in Murdoch (It's Only Just Beginning)
As both Rupert and James Murdoch prepare to face questioning about phone hacking by "News of the World" reporters and private investigators, a refresher of how the scandal began – and how much damage has been done to News Corp. thus far.
April 23, 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
VA to Hire Almost 2,000 Additional Mental Health Staffers
While most praised this week's announcement, some voiced concerns about how and when the Department of Veterans Affairs will increase its already depleted workforce.
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