One year after Lehman
We have a couple of posts about the aftermath of Lehman today – since it’s an appropriate time to step back and look at the whirlwind of the past year. Here are a handful of interviews that have stood out.
Several months ago, we gathered a few resources about what we were calling the Global Economic Crisis – the list includes the classic Planet Money/This American Life documentaries, and a Charlie Rose interview with Warren Buffett that still holds up, 11 months later.
A year ago, Michael Greenberger, a former director at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, talked to Terry Gross on Fresh Air, just after the rescue of AIG, and this conversation still holds up even after a cascade of events and hindsight. Listen
Kate Kelly and William Cohan wrote excellent books on the collapse of Bear Stearns, and this is the only interview we know of that puts the two of them at the table to talk about the economy – on Charlie Rose.
And, we wrap up our list with a good interview we failed to call out when it aired in July. Lawrence McDonald, former Lehman Brothers vice president, now author of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, talked to WNYC’s Leonard Lopate about how things fell apart, and why the Fed and the Treasury let it happen.
