Frontline – The Warning: Who Knew About the Looming Financial Crisis?

By Edward Harrison On Oct 20, 2009

Watch the hour-long retrospective which aired tonight on PBS’s Frontline. It should be very enlighteningregarding the seeds of the bubble and meltdown. It examines who the players in the 1990s and 2000s were, what their attitude to regulation was, and how lax regulation created a bubble and a bust.

Also see the following posts for more background:

(video embedded below; runs just under one hour)

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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

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Matt Stiles says 15 years ago

EMH underpins laissez faire? Please reconsider this before expanding on it. That is categorically false.

https://mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/RAE10_2_2.pdf

“The main shortcomings of the EMH are similar to those of the long-run competitive theories that focus exclusively on equilibrium outcomes while ignoring the entrepreneurial activity that generates those outcomes.”
1. Edward Harrison says 15 years ago
  
  I will remove it as I had done on Naked Capitalism (since it distracts). I will revisit the topic later.

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