FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the global financial crisis.
Episode 1: Inside the epic rise of a new financial order 

Chapter 1: A Brave New World of Banking

A group of young bankers make history with the creation of the credit default swap market

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Chapter 2: Funding the American Dream

The Wall Street and mortgage lobbies successfully defeat attempts to regulate derivatives

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Chapter 3: Marching Towards the Cliff

JP Morgan reassesses, pulls back from the mortgage market but other banks can get enough

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Chapter 4: The Unraveling Begins

When the housing bubble burst, credit default swaps bring the global economy to it's knees

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Money, Power & Wall Street: Part Two 

Chapter 1: Systematic Risk 

Bear Stearns collapses; regulators feel its effects on the financial system.

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Chapter 2: The Summer of Assurances

The financial crisis becomes increasingly obvious, but there's no decisive action.

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Chapter 3: The Decision to let Lehman fail

Paulson bet the markets would take care of themselves but would soon learn he was wrong.

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Chapter 4: AIG gets a bailout

A decision by Geithner means billions of US government dollars flow to Wall Street

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