Five Years Later: The 2008 Financial Crisis

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 13, 2013

Five years ago today, Lehman Brothers was in the midst of a multi-billion-dollar collapse, and the world was coming to grips with the new normal of the Great Recession. Sheila Bair, former FDIC chairman and author of Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street From Itself (now out in paperback), reflects on the state of the banking system today, and what comes next.

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