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• 'Black Edge' Recounts The Biggest Insider-Trading Scandal In History (35 min)
  NPR, Fresh Air, Feb 7, 2017. Host Dave Davies. Sheelah Kolhatkar discusses the investigation of billionaire hedge-fund trader Steven A. Cohen. She says the ways Wall Street elites accumulate wealth often negatively affect the rest of the country.
• *Global Financial Meltdown - One Of The Best Financial Crisis Documentary Films
  "Meltdown is a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world. The show begins with the 2008 crash that pushed 30 million people into unemployment, brought countries to the edge of insolvency and turned the clock back to 1929."
• Abacus: Small enough to jail (75 min)
  PBS Frontline, Sept 12, 2017 From acclaimed director Steve James, the little-known story of the only U.S. bank prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis.
• Abacus: The only bank charged in the financial crisis
  Kai Ryssdal and Tommy Andres, NPR MarketPlace, 5/22/2017 In 2010, the New York District Attorney's office charged Abacus Federal Savings Bank of Chinatown, New York with mortgage fraud. Abacus became the only bank prosecuted for the financial crisis. In a new documentary film, "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail," filmmaker Steve James tells the story of the Sungs, the family of a now 82-year-old Chinese immigrant named Thomas Sung who started Abacus in 1984.
• A Hedge Fund Bailout Highlights How Regulators Ignored Big Risks
  Jeanna Smialek and Deborah B. Solomon, NY Times, July 23, 2020
  The Dodd-Frank financial law succeeded at making banks safer, but empowered shadowy corners of finance that nearly wrecked the system in March.
• Foreclosure Diaries - Video Preview (9 min)
  Pacific Street Films "FORECLOSURE DIARIES is a stylized documentary examination of the collateral damage wrought by what’s now being called the “Great Recession.” Part investigation and part personal journey, the film chronicles how Wall Street’s penchant for financial engineering has created a foreclosure crisis of unprecedented proportions. Focusing a lens on the personal experiences of several individuals the narrative provides a compelling look at the emotional price paid by homeowners who refuse to allow the banks and their cronies in the servicing industry to simply robosign their homes away into what’s now called the “shadow inventory” of foreclosed and unoccupied homes."
• Fortune Magazine - These 7 Movies Tell The Real Story Behind the Financial Crisis
  These 7 Movies Tell The Real Story Behind the Financial Crisis Tom Huddleston, Jr., Fortune Magazine, December 27, 2015
• ICIJ Pandora Papers - Suspect foreign money flows in
  Suspect foreign money flows into booming American tax havens on promise of eternal secrecy.
  Will Fitzgibbon, Debbie Cenziper and Salwan Georges, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, October 4, 2021
  Confidential documents lay bare the inner workings of U.S. trust industry that serves global leaders and the super rich.
  Trident Trust promised to protect the fortunes and privacy of its new customers by relying on the laws of a state that had become a global destination for wealth. The company called it: “The South Dakota Advantage.”
• If You Can. How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly
  If You Can. How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly. William J. Bernstein ©2014
• Jack Bogle: Here Are The 6 Books That Every Investor Must Read
  Business Insider, Dec. 14, 2012 Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard and pioneer of index funds, is one of the most brilliant and most important minds in investing. We recently reached out to Mr. Bogle and asked him for what he thought were the best books in investing.
• Larry Fink’s Annual Letter to CEOs A Sense of Purpose
  Laurence D. Fink is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, Inc. He also leads the firm's Global Executive Committee. Globally, investors’ increasing use of index funds is driving a transformation in BlackRock’s fiduciary responsibility and the wider landscape of corporate governance. In the $1.7 trillion in active funds we manage, BlackRock can choose to sell the securities of a company if we are doubtful about its strategic direction or long-term growth. In managing our index funds, however, BlackRock cannot express its disapproval by selling the company’s securities as long as that company remains in the relevant index. As a result, our responsibility to engage and vote is more important than ever. In this sense, index investors are the ultimate long-term investors – providing patient capital for companies to grow and prosper.
• mathbabe - Exploring and venting about quantitative issues
  Cathy O'Neil's blog - Cathy O’Neil lives in New York City. She hopes to someday have a better answer to the question, “what can a non-academic mathematician do that makes the world a better place?” Hear her interview with Frontline, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oral-history/financial-crisis/tags/occupy-wall-street/
• Michael Lewis - author
  Michael Lewis is author of The Big Short, Flash Boys, and other best-sellers about financial dealings
• Moody’s to Pay $864 Million to Settle Inquiry Into Inflated Ratings
  NY Times, by the Associated Press, Jan 13, 2017 Moody’s Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $864 million to settle federal and state claims it gave inflated ratings to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crisis.
• Moyers & Company - Encore: How Big Banks Are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy
  Moyers & Company Encore: How Big Banks Are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy Six Films on the Financial Crisis January 27, 2012
• NY Times - Mutual Funds Oppose S.E.C.’s Plan for a Bigger Cash Cushion
  Mutual Funds Oppose S.E.C.’s Plan for a Bigger Cash Cushion Landon Thomas, Jr., NY Times, March 9, 2016
• NY Times - Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top Banks
  Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top Banks By Michael Corkery and Ben Protessmay, May 20, 2015 Note that say "felons of top banks", Not "top bankers". Prison is for people who steal smaller amounts!
• NY Times - What ‘The Big Short’ Gets Right, and Wrong, About the Housing Bubble
  What ‘The Big Short’ Gets Right, and Wrong, About the Housing Bubble Neil Irwin, The Upshot, NY Times, Dec 22, 2015
• Obama Lands in Argentina – Palast on Loud & Clear Radio
  The story of Argentina versus Singer, aka The Vulture, looms hugely over the US Presidential election. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton attempted to prevent Singer from collecting this "extortion" pay-off from Argentina. Singer, the top donor to the Republican Party, is fuming. - See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/#sthash.PzUw18gh.dpuf
• PayPal Announces $530 Million Commitment to Support Black Businesses, Strengthen Minority Communities and Fight Economic Inequality
  June 11, 2020
• PBS Frontline - Occupy Wall Street
  Multiple oral histories about the financial crisis of 2008 Definitely listen to - Cath O'Neil, Former analyst, D.E. Shaw & Co., "Why I joined Occupy Wall Street" - Richard Kovacevich, Chair, Wells Fargo (2001-09), "Every bank is being vilified (and regulated) for something they didn't do."
• PBS Frontline - The Card Game (56 min)
  PBS Frontline, The Card Game "As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and staggering new rates of default and bankruptcy, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. "In The Card Game, a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card and a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over attempts to reform the way the industry has done business for decades."
• Robert Shiller - Are We Headed for Another Financial Crisis? (60 min)
  March 3, 2015
• Robert Shiller - Fraud, fools, and financial crises
  Fraud, fools, and financial crises Robert Shiller, The Guardian, Sept 20, 2015
• Robert Shiller - The subprime solution
  The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It Robert J. Shiller
• State of Things - Krawcheck: Investing In Professional Women
  Sallie Krawcheck: Investing In Professional Women Frank Stadio and Andrew Ti WUNC.ORG -The State of Things, 10/23/2015 Listen at 18 min especially.
• The Panama Papers: Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry
  International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
  A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
• Transcendental Meditation, which Bridgewater's Ray Dalio calls 'the single biggest influence' on his life, is taking over Wall Street
  Richard Feloni, Business Insider, Nov 4, 2016 "... over the last three years, the David Lynch Foundation TM center has taught almost 2,500 professionals — 1,150 in 2016 alone — and roughly 55% are from Wall Street."
• Vanguard's John Bogle Says 'Enough'
  Alison Stewart host, NPR, November 1, 20088:00 AM ET The founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group shares his views on executive compensation, Wall Street and the financial system as a whole. His thoughts on the importance of ethical, moral and spiritual values are in his new book, Enough: The True Measure of Money, Business and Life. (with transcript)
• Vanguard spring 2002 newsletter
  In the Vanguard, spring 2002. Includes "Vanguard Performance Profile" from spring 2002.
• Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million on Phony Accounts, Fires 5,300 Staff
  NBC News, 9/8/2016 California and federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a combined $185 million on Thursday, alleging the bank's employees illegally opened millions of unauthorized accounts for their customers in order to meet aggressive sales goals. A staggering 5,300 employees at Wells Fargo were fired in connection with this behavior, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.