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NPR News presents The Financial Crisis: One Year and Counting, a series on the global financial crisis, continuing through September 16 on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Thursday, September 10
All Things Considered
The financial crisis has left a trail of victims in its wake. Entire industries such as construction and banking have suffered terrible blows.
The already troubled auto industry went into critical condition. But the crisis and subsequent bailouts also strengthened some industries and specific companies, as NPR’s Wendy Kaufman reports on “Losers – and Winners” on All Things Considered.
Monday, September 14
Morning Edition
Monday, September 14, on Morning Edition, NPR continues with its series – The Financial Crisis: One Year and Counting.
After the Director of National Intelligence warned last winter that the global financial crisis presented the top near-term security threat to the U.S., the CIA began preparing a daily “economic intelligence” brief for the President. The brief itself is classified, but NPR’s Tom Gjelten reports on the issues and topics it covers, and the significance of its elevation on the U.S. security agenda.
Monday, September 14
All Things Considered
When the financial crisis erupted, politicians, regulators, and scholars from the left and right agreed that is was so severe, so potentially catastrophic that something drastic needed to be done.
But now as a depression has been averted, consensus is slipping away into the muck of politics.
Can it be revived? NPR‘s Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg report on “The Fix,” on All Things Considered on WKAR.
Tuesday, September 15
Morning Edition
Just about everyone agrees that rules need to be tightened to prevent complex instruments like derivatives from threatening the financial system. One way to do that would be combining the forces of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. But that’s not happening, and therein is a tale of bureaucratic dysfunction.
NPR’s Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg report on “Dysfunctional Agencies” on Morning Edition.
Tuesday, September 15
All Things Considered
The government took extraordinary measures to save the economy – huge stimulus and bailout packages. The Fed has cut interest rates to zero and provided massive amounts of liquidity to banks. We’re in uncharted water and with this amount of government debt.
Is inflation the next big fear? How do we unwind it all the government intervention into the economy?NPR’s John Ydstie reports on “Debt” on All Things Considered.
Morning Edition
Wednesday, September 16
NPR’s David Welna reports on the reaction from Capitol Hill a year ago when Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke came knocking to warn that the nation faced a financial crisis that could be worse than the Great Depression.
Wednesday, September 16
All Things Considered
The financial crisis brought the international economic system to the verge of meltdown. We escaped the most dire scenario, but some say unless we learn the proper lessons, we’ll be vulnerable to another crisis.
NPR’s Tom Gjelten reports on “Lessons Learned” on All Things Considered.
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