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A year ago, the impact of America's economic collapse was being felt all over the world. We look back at the extraordinary events that caused The Crash, and examine whether it can happen again.
  
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The BBC’s Louise Hidalgo brings us the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers -- told by the people who tried to save it.
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Louise Hidalgo continues her examination of the crash of 2008 by looking at life after Lehman’s. She speaks with key decision makers and probes the response of politicians in the U.S. and abroad.

Listen to Louise Hidalgo’s report on the run-up to the 2008 crash, and the rise and rise of the financial markets over the last two decades.


Listen to guest anchor Jason Margolis’ weekly Global Economy podcast.
     
   
     



THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world.
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