Crisis on Wall Street(2018)
Ten years after the fall of Lehman Brothers, learn of the historic bankruptcy and cascade of events over a September weekend in 2008 that led to the worst financial crisis in generations. Andrew Ross Sorkin, CNBC anchor and author of the groundbreaking best-seller "Too Big to Fail," reports on how the nation and the world came as close as ever to a full economic collapse.
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Ten years after the fall of Lehman Brothers, learn of the historic bankruptcy and cascade of events over a September weekend in 2008 that led to the worst financial crisis in generations. Andrew Ross Sorkin, CNBC anchor and author of the groundbreaking best-seller "Too Big to Fail," reports on how the nation and the world came as close as ever to a full economic collapse.
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