Everything You Wanted to Know, and Some Things You Didn’t

Frontline on PBS “Money, Power, and Wall Street”

Episode 4

The fourth and last episode of this in depth documentary shares secrets that many did not know. This documentary explains exactly the issues and motivations behind the economic issues since 2008 and tells us three things:

• Nothing has changed on Wall Street despite this crisis.
• While banks had tried to help lower the debt payments of cities using swaps, the market crashed soon after
• While Americans show their outrage in ways such as Occupy Wall Street, there are still more fights going on in Washington, D.C. to decide how we progress

We find out that $7.7 trillion was given to banks. It informed that banks were at their weakest when people were being told they were on the mend. This shows that the small window that was available for reform has closed and until there is another catastrophe there will be no fixing the system. It reveals secrets and strives to inform people exactly what is occurring in meetings and places they cannot be. Mostly, this documentary explains to the people everything they wanted to know, and some things they didn’t, about the economic crisis.

Gaviria, Marcela, prod. "Episode 4." Prod. Martin Smith. Money, Power and Wall Street. Frontline on PBS: 01 May 2012. Television.