Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How the 2008 financial collapse led to our current political populist moment
It’s been 10 years since the biggest bankruptcy in history. Lehman Brothers -- then the nation’s fourth largest investment bank -- failed and touched off the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readIt’s been 10 years since the biggest bankruptcy in history. Lehman Brothers -- then the nation’s fourth largest investment bank -- failed and touched off the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin argues that the collapse was the moment that split the country and lead to the election of Donald Trump. His documentary “Crisis on Wall Street” airs Wednesday on CNBC at 10 pm PST.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Andrew Ross Sorkin
columnist for New York Times; and founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, NYT’s online daily financial report
The full episode
2 of 5Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown on his climate efforts- 0:00Gov. Brown to his critics: 'We have the strictest rules on oil drilling anywhere in the U.S.’
- 10:02How the 2008 financial collapse led to our current political populist momentYou’re reading this
- 18:03Finding parents deported without their kids in Guatemala
- 26:15'Mean Girls’ in Ghana, and how skin color in Africa determines who’s at the top of the pecking order
- 39:29Why we should take sexual harassment training more seriously