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The Madoff Affair
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Play: The Madoff Affair Duration: 58:19
In a search for clues on how the fraud began, FRONTLINE traces Madoff's story back to the early 1960s, when he first opened a small investment advisory business and hired two accountants, Frank Avellino and Michael Bienes, to help him recruit clients. In an exclusive television interview, Bienes describes those fruitful early years. It was "easy, easy-peasy, like a money machine," Bienes tells...
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Ten Trillion And Counting
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Play: Ten Trillion And Counting Duration: 58:19
The journey begins as FRONTLINE correspondent Forrest Sawyer takes viewers to a secret location: the Treasury's debt auction room, where the U.S. government sells securities backed by the "full faith and credit of the United States." On this day, the government is auctioning $67 billion of Treasury securities. The money borrowed will be used to fund services and programs that the government...
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Black Money
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Play: Breaking The Bank Duration: 58:19
In Black Money, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates this shadowy side of international business, shedding light on multinational companies that have routinely made secret payments -- often referred to as "black money" -- to win billions in business. "The thing about black money is you can claim it's being used for all kinds of things," the British reporter David Leigh tells...
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Breaking The Bank
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Play: Breaking The Bank Duration: 57:56
In Breaking the Bank, FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk (Inside the Meltdown, Bush's War) draws on a rare combination of high-profile interviews with key players Ken Lewis and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to reveal the story of two banks at the heart of the financial crisis, the rocky merger, and the government's new role in taking over -- some call it "nationalizing" -- the...
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Sick Around The America
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Play: Sick Around America Duration: 57:56
As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses—potentially forcing millions more Americans to go without health insurance—FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and explores the need for a fundamental overhaul. Veteran FRONTLINE producer Jon Palfreman dissects the private insurance system, a system that not only fails to cover...
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Sick Around The World
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Play: Sick Around The World Duration: 58:25
Hawkes is health editor for The Times of London and a longtime observer of Britain's National Health Service (NHS), a government-run service that covers everyone's health care and is paid for out of tax revenue. Here Hawkes discusses the NHS's advantages and shortcomings, and recent initiatives to bring some market efficiencies into the 60-year-old socialized system...
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Bigger Than Enron
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Play: Bigger Than Enron Duration: 51:30
In "Bigger Than Enron," FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith shines a spotlight on how the corporate watchdogs -- the bankers, lawyers, regulators, politicians, and above all, the accountants -- failed to prevent Enron and other scandals from happening. Through interviews with current and former SEC officials (including SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt and his predecessor, Arthur...
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The Battle For The World Economy - The Battle of Ideas
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Play: The Battle For The World Economy Duration: 1:55:30
The Battle of Ideas, chronicles the history of economic thought from the start of the 20th century and its socialist reforms right through the deregulation of the 1980s.
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The Battle For The World Economy - The Agony Of Reform
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Play: The Agony Of Reform Duration: 1:55:30
The second part of the three part series into the history of the economic developments, from communism to global corporatisation.
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The Battle For The World Economy - The New Rulers Of The Game
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Play: The New Rulers Of The Game Duration: 1:55:30
The New Rules of the Game, explores the consequences of globalization, including terrorism and the contagion of market collapse.
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