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Gambled Away In The Financial Crisis – The Deutsche Bank Story

Published on June 4, 2025

I've posted several articles about the 2007/2008 financial crisis and I'm adding these videos that I watched a few weeks ago to that collection. It's a very well researched documentary that features interviews with the key players, i.e. not hearsay statements. The documentary was produced by Deutsche Welle (DW), a German public broadcast service.

Part 1: Gambled Away In The Financial Crisis – The Deutsche Bank Story

Part 2: Trump, Putin & Co. – Deutsche Bank’s Questionable Clientele

Meltdown – The Global Financial Crisis of 2008

Published on September 28, 2015

Created on Friday, 16 December 2011 19:42

In 2008 greed and recklessness by the titans of Wall Street, years of deregulation by the US government and faulty ratings from credit agencies triggered the biggest financial crash since The Great Depression.

In this 4 part documentary series produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Terence McKenna takes viewers behind the headlines and into the back rooms of world governments and financial institutions, in an attempt to explain the events and decisions that led to the 2008 meltdown.

If you think that politicians and financial institutions have now learned their lesson and the crash of 2008 will not repeat itself – think again.

Part 1: The Men Who Crashed The World