Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Unemployment during the Great Depression was 25 percent. So, just how does the current economic crisis stack up against history's other bubble-bursting periods? Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, places the current financial crisis in historical context.

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