Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters

A Boom in Busts (1x3)

Air date: Aug 16, 2018

Contrast the freewheeling financial market of today with the staid system of the immediate post-World War II era. Were financial markets more stable in the past than they are now? How did the present system evolve? What type of market is normal: the steady and predictable kind or the chaotic and sometimes destructive one? In answering these questions, discover why we live in an era of busts.