The financial crisis of 2008 was a turning point during which the complexity of our financial system manifested itself. It was a web we had spun for over for more than thirty years ut it turned out to be a giant house of cards. Starting in the US where the Lehman Brothers fell, the crisis spread like wildfire. Only two weeks after Lehman, the crisis infected Europe..
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 Jan Peter BalkenendeSelf | Self |
 Wouter BosSelf | Self |
 Nout WellinkSelf | Self |
 Yves LetermeSelf | Self |
 Didier ReyndersSelf | Self |
 Jean-Claude TrichetSelf | Self |
 Mervyn KingSelf | Self |
 George W. BushSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Mark RutteSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Queen Beatrix of the NetherlandsSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Ronald PlasterkSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Twan HuysSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Sascha de BoerSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Léon de JongSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Jan Kees de JagerSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Silvio BerlusconiSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 David CameronSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Angela MerkelSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |